Its neither. We are evolutionary survival machines, look at the things that our ancestors did to survive. They sought sugars, salts, protein and fat. Any combination of those things is literally guaranteed to addictive to a human being. We are bred literally to respond to that combination. So what do fast food restaurants do, they server us huge helpings of sugar, salt, protein and fat. These things have survival value. Sadly, they are also killing us. The ugly part is that people are getting rich pulling the trigger, knowing full well its a trigger.
Have a heart... modded down to '0', I'm hoping its because your not amused by his sense of humor, I mean his tongue is firmly planted in his cheek... Your tongue's in your cheek right?;-)
Hey, I feel your pain. The big O has certainly contributed to the erosion of freedom and civil liberty, but let's not forget that the process is a long time coming. Inn fact the two largest hammers on American Civil Liberties were Ron Reagan and George W. Bush. The last President who was actually more interested in doing the right thing vs. expanding the powers of the office was Jimmy Carter. So piss and moan all you want about Obama, this thing is way bigger than partisan politics.
I don't find this shocking, Wallstreet advertising has convinced millions of Americans that Der Weinerschnitzel and Taco Bell are preferable to a good home cooked meal, hell they got nearly 50% of the mouth breathing public to vote for George W. Bush... TWICE!
Romney's a friggin senior statesman, compared to Dubyah. The thing that has me most frightened is that this whole campaign is a carefully manufactured passion play. Have all the candidates from the Republican look like full tilt wackos, idiots or scumbags, with only one guy, one banal, lack luster, white bread guy, that isn't a full on self destruct running for president. Make it look like the Republicans are putting up their best men, when in fact they are holding back, luring the Dems into taking the next four ugly, nasty, vicious years, and so damaging the party that the Reps can ride a free ticket for 20 years. Of course under that situation, I don't believe the nation would last another 20 years. They'll bleed it dead broke dry way before that. Can't say with any certainty any more that the Dems would be any better.
Both sides are whoring, they've just chosen different corporate johns.
Dude, ease up. There is gas passing aplenty on all sides. If you're going to get an ulcer over a candid moment with Mitt and his billionaire buddies, you won't even make it to the inauguration (whichever it may be.) Personally,Mitt knows on which side his bread is buttered or in this case spoon is silvered. He had wealthy folk "contributing" looking to buy influence and make things happen like money's going out of style (whoops, that was fearfully prescient.)
Here, here! Its time for new patriots to light the fires and kick the tires. We have been lied to, cheated and stolen from. Our forefathers would have taken to the streets for a tenth of what our government force feeds us today. Enough you lotus eaters, wake the hell up. Its time to take back that which rightfully ours, if not by legislation, then by gawd with force of numbers. To paraphrase one of the greatest lines from a movie ever "Stand up, go to the window and yell "I'm sick and tired and I won't take it any more!!!"".
In the US we have our "Red Necks" which come in assorted flavors including "Shit Kickers", "Skin Heads", "Hill Billies" and "Hard Hats". We here actually have a bit of a warm spot for our Protohominid brethren, and though "Red Neck" is a pejorative, its usually said with a smile. For example there is the entire catalog of Red Neck jokes to be enjoyed by our country's favorite Red Neck Comedian, Jeff Foxworthy.
Our bigotry has a long and illustrious history. It seems we had many episodes if racial discrimination in our past as well. The most commonly pointed to are obviously Black Slaves, and Slaughtered Native Americans, but even the Irish had their day. During the Potato Famine, the Irish fled to America by the Millions. They were not welcome when they got here. They were put to tasks that you wouldn't humanely put animals to. They were used to drain the swamps of New Orleans, which were infested with mosquitoes carrying malaria and yellow fever. They wouldn't use slaves to do this work because slaves were valuable live stock, whereas Irish men were considered gun fodder. Along the same lines Chinese were used to build be cross continental railroad, and thousand died along some of the more challenging sections, and then upon completion, we deported them back to China. As much as we dislike Irishmen, we despised brown people (and today we bomb them for fun and profit.)
So I guess that makes us alike in one more way, we have our Bogans too.
Its actually WAY funnier than that. So the Puritans were this completely bug-fsck religious sect, they honestly believed that as a Christian your life should be a miserable lot so along that thinking they outlawed music, dancing and singing. So to express their love for their maker they proceeded by smashing the church organs in England and cutting ears off people who dared to enjoy music. The English people, most of whom were sane at the time made it clear to the King, its us or them, so there were asked to leave England with extreme prejudice. They traveled and made friends wherever the went... not. They landed in the Netherlands, the most accepting and accommodating people in Western Europe in that day, and after just a few years wore out their welcome big time. Where to go... Of course the New World, where they could practice their religion without persecution (which would be truly odd because almost from the get, practicing their religion involved persecuting someone, somewhere.)
And so they went to the New World. Here's the really funny part. The few Puritan Communities that survived were vicious nasty places and as a general practice they slaughtered Native Americas who helped them and showed pity on them when they first came to the New Land. The really funny part is that many of the first colonies vanished. Well not completely. It seems that when confronted with the idiocy of their beliefs and the natives with plenty of food, happy children and healthy lives, they said screw it and joined the local tribes. So from just about any angle you slice this, there wasn't a lot pure about the Puritans. Most of what get's taught in our elementary schools is just plain crap. Now we have states that are actually codifying religious crap they want to teach children instead of science and just physical reality in general. I realize teaching children the truth, and at an early age fostering the notion of questioning authority would make life for the Plutocrats almost unbearable, but it would sure make a more interesting civilization.
Do not take this advice!!! Breeding Nerds would threaten the integrity of the Space Time Continuum... go back to reading "Onan the Barbarian" and pretend you never saw this.
You realize that Collage is a gateway artform... before long they'll be doing paper mache' and decoupage, then comes the hard stuff cloisonne. Just say no to crafts.
And in Kansas, in their introduction to computer science courses, they explain how Jesus miracles the electrons into computing, with the help of a billion angel opening and closing logic gate at his command. When they say modern computing is a miracle, well the folks in the Bible Belt take that real dang serious like.
Or you could get a Toyota Avalon, and do standard maintenance... 220,000 miles and nothing has ever gone wrong. I've got all those things you don't have and it still works like a champ. Could the real problem be American planned obsolescence? Just a thought.
No he's become proficient and grinding up old CPUs and snorting the powder. Its called "Bit Sniffing", I hear you can smell the data. One guy even talked about seeing endless rows of guys in Intel bunny suits doing a kick dance. Of course, some of these guys end up with a cache on their back, and that's just sad.
Yeah sounds way more elliptical to me... have you looked at any other conic sections?
By the way, I wonder if I can use that with my boss? "Yeah, I've got a fever, headache, the trots and body aches, I think I'm down with a case of Microsoft...
Has anyone else noticed lately that the auto updates for Adobe are becoming difficult to do without having all kinds of unwanted crap land on your system. What is with all these applications dumping unwanted software on you. I'm waiting for downloads to begin auto stuffing screen backgrounds like "heaping cowflops" and "maggoty garbage" and for a small subscription fee, they'll stop. Reminds me of a joke
A guy goes to a toothbrush factory and says "I wanna sell toothbrushes". The sales manager says "I like your grit, you're hired, but we can only keep you on if you meet quota by your second week." The guy goes out, and after his first week, he's only sold 5 toothbrushes. The manger sits him down and says look, you need to sell at least 200 hundred brushes to meet quota, maybe you should look for a different job." The man say's "I know I can do this please have faith in me." So he goes out for another week. He comes back at the end of his second week, and he's only sold 12 toothbrushes. The sales manager says "Well your two weeks are up, and you aren't even close. We need to let you go." The man says "Please, please give me one more week, I'll make good, you'll see." The manager says "Well, against my better judgement, okay, but just one week. The week passes and the man comes in on Friday having sold 10,000 toothbrushes. The manager is floored. How the hell did you sell that many toothbrushes. "Well" the man says "I picked a sweet spot in the middle of mall traffic. Then I set up a small brightly colored booth. Finally I set up hundreds of toothbrushes and a place to sample crackers. People would come by, try a cracker, and yell, this tastes like shit... I'd say, it is shit, wanna buy a toothbrush?"
Don't get me wrong, I applaud both your logic and your integrity... the only fly in the ointment is the cheesy lot that think something for nothing is a gawd given right. You can only have beautiful things by investing in them. It is a wise man who knows upon which side his bread is buttered. You speak of scarcity, if nothing else in this culture is scarce, it would be wisdom.
Yea Brother. In the beginning the Usenet was a sweet and lovely thing. Yes there were occasional flamewars, but since it was tied to real email addresses acolytes couldn't be a colossal rectal orifices without ultimately suffering holy sanctions. The thing started out representing thought spaces for work, creation, then play, then strange things began to creep into the Usenet. Alt.sex spawned Alt.sex.small. furry. animals.bin... all sort and kinds ontological sewage backed up into the Usenet converting it from a gather place of ideas into an unwholesome sewer pipe. Spam was the primary engine of its decay, ultimately dumping filth into every good and legitimate channel as well as every off color threads. Spam has been the force behind the slaughter of many useful resources. I hope there is a special place in third level of hell for spammers, somewhere between politicians and use car salesmen.
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Its neither. We are evolutionary survival machines, look at the things that our ancestors did to survive. They sought sugars, salts, protein and fat. Any combination of those things is literally guaranteed to addictive to a human being. We are bred literally to respond to that combination. So what do fast food restaurants do, they server us huge helpings of sugar, salt, protein and fat. These things have survival value. Sadly, they are also killing us. The ugly part is that people are getting rich pulling the trigger, knowing full well its a trigger.
Have a heart... modded down to '0', I'm hoping its because your not amused by his sense of humor, I mean his tongue is firmly planted in his cheek... Your tongue's in your cheek right? ;-)
Hey, I feel your pain. The big O has certainly contributed to the erosion of freedom and civil liberty, but let's not forget that the process is a long time coming. Inn fact the two largest hammers on American Civil Liberties were Ron Reagan and George W. Bush. The last President who was actually more interested in doing the right thing vs. expanding the powers of the office was Jimmy Carter. So piss and moan all you want about Obama, this thing is way bigger than partisan politics.
I don't find this shocking, Wallstreet advertising has convinced millions of Americans that Der Weinerschnitzel and Taco Bell are preferable to a good home cooked meal, hell they got nearly 50% of the mouth breathing public to vote for George W. Bush... TWICE!
Romney's a friggin senior statesman, compared to Dubyah. The thing that has me most frightened is that this whole campaign is a carefully manufactured passion play. Have all the candidates from the Republican look like full tilt wackos, idiots or scumbags, with only one guy, one banal, lack luster, white bread guy, that isn't a full on self destruct running for president. Make it look like the Republicans are putting up their best men, when in fact they are holding back, luring the Dems into taking the next four ugly, nasty, vicious years, and so damaging the party that the Reps can ride a free ticket for 20 years. Of course under that situation, I don't believe the nation would last another 20 years. They'll bleed it dead broke dry way before that. Can't say with any certainty any more that the Dems would be any better.
Both sides are whoring, they've just chosen different corporate johns.
Can be reduced to the single phrase "Nuh-huh!!!". Won't you children puhleez play nice!
Dude, ease up. There is gas passing aplenty on all sides. If you're going to get an ulcer over a candid moment with Mitt and his billionaire buddies, you won't even make it to the inauguration (whichever it may be.) Personally,Mitt knows on which side his bread is buttered or in this case spoon is silvered. He had wealthy folk "contributing" looking to buy influence and make things happen like money's going out of style (whoops, that was fearfully prescient.)
Surrounded by a halo of hot gas... The Milky Way Galaxy and Washington D.C.
Here, here! Its time for new patriots to light the fires and kick the tires. We have been lied to, cheated and stolen from. Our forefathers would have taken to the streets for a tenth of what our government force feeds us today. Enough you lotus eaters, wake the hell up. Its time to take back that which rightfully ours, if not by legislation, then by gawd with force of numbers. To paraphrase one of the greatest lines from a movie ever "Stand up, go to the window and yell "I'm sick and tired and I won't take it any more!!!"".
In the US we have our "Red Necks" which come in assorted flavors including "Shit Kickers", "Skin Heads", "Hill Billies" and "Hard Hats". We here actually have a bit of a warm spot for our Protohominid brethren, and though "Red Neck" is a pejorative, its usually said with a smile. For example there is the entire catalog of Red Neck jokes to be enjoyed by our country's favorite Red Neck Comedian, Jeff Foxworthy.
Our bigotry has a long and illustrious history. It seems we had many episodes if racial discrimination in our past as well. The most commonly pointed to are obviously Black Slaves, and Slaughtered Native Americans, but even the Irish had their day. During the Potato Famine, the Irish fled to America by the Millions. They were not welcome when they got here. They were put to tasks that you wouldn't humanely put animals to. They were used to drain the swamps of New Orleans, which were infested with mosquitoes carrying malaria and yellow fever. They wouldn't use slaves to do this work because slaves were valuable live stock, whereas Irish men were considered gun fodder. Along the same lines Chinese were used to build be cross continental railroad, and thousand died along some of the more challenging sections, and then upon completion, we deported them back to China. As much as we dislike Irishmen, we despised brown people (and today we bomb them for fun and profit.)
So I guess that makes us alike in one more way, we have our Bogans too.
Its actually WAY funnier than that. So the Puritans were this completely bug-fsck religious sect, they honestly believed that as a Christian your life should be a miserable lot so along that thinking they outlawed music, dancing and singing. So to express their love for their maker they proceeded by smashing the church organs in England and cutting ears off people who dared to enjoy music. The English people, most of whom were sane at the time made it clear to the King, its us or them, so there were asked to leave England with extreme prejudice. They traveled and made friends wherever the went... not. They landed in the Netherlands, the most accepting and accommodating people in Western Europe in that day, and after just a few years wore out their welcome big time. Where to go... Of course the New World, where they could practice their religion without persecution (which would be truly odd because almost from the get, practicing their religion involved persecuting someone, somewhere.)
And so they went to the New World. Here's the really funny part. The few Puritan Communities that survived were vicious nasty places and as a general practice they slaughtered Native Americas who helped them and showed pity on them when they first came to the New Land. The really funny part is that many of the first colonies vanished. Well not completely. It seems that when confronted with the idiocy of their beliefs and the natives with plenty of food, happy children and healthy lives, they said screw it and joined the local tribes. So from just about any angle you slice this, there wasn't a lot pure about the Puritans. Most of what get's taught in our elementary schools is just plain crap. Now we have states that are actually codifying religious crap they want to teach children instead of science and just physical reality in general. I realize teaching children the truth, and at an early age fostering the notion of questioning authority would make life for the Plutocrats almost unbearable, but it would sure make a more interesting civilization.
Do not take this advice!!! Breeding Nerds would threaten the integrity of the Space Time Continuum... go back to reading "Onan the Barbarian" and pretend you never saw this.
You goof, the Hot Chicks, are the Deadly Creatures... leave it to a Slashdotter.
You realize that Collage is a gateway artform... before long they'll be doing paper mache' and decoupage, then comes the hard stuff cloisonne. Just say no to crafts.
Turning 'ON' the PC is easy, its getting it to stop humping your leg that takes work.
And in Kansas, in their introduction to computer science courses, they explain how Jesus miracles the electrons into computing, with the help of a billion angel opening and closing logic gate at his command. When they say modern computing is a miracle, well the folks in the Bible Belt take that real dang serious like.
But don't all computer run Microsoft software?... wait, wait, let me get my asbestos panties on.. Okay, let the festivities begin ;-)
Or you could get a Toyota Avalon, and do standard maintenance... 220,000 miles and nothing has ever gone wrong. I've got all those things you don't have and it still works like a champ. Could the real problem be American planned obsolescence? Just a thought.
No he's become proficient and grinding up old CPUs and snorting the powder. Its called "Bit Sniffing", I hear you can smell the data. One guy even talked about seeing endless rows of guys in Intel bunny suits doing a kick dance. Of course, some of these guys end up with a cache on their back, and that's just sad.
Yeah sounds way more elliptical to me... have you looked at any other conic sections?
By the way, I wonder if I can use that with my boss? "Yeah, I've got a fever, headache, the trots and body aches, I think I'm down with a case of Microsoft...
My name is John McAfee and I approve this message...
Has anyone else noticed lately that the auto updates for Adobe are becoming difficult to do without having all kinds of unwanted crap land on your system. What is with all these applications dumping unwanted software on you. I'm waiting for downloads to begin auto stuffing screen backgrounds like "heaping cowflops" and "maggoty garbage" and for a small subscription fee, they'll stop. Reminds me of a joke
A guy goes to a toothbrush factory and says "I wanna sell toothbrushes". The sales manager says "I like your grit, you're hired, but we can only keep you on if you meet quota by your second week." The guy goes out, and after his first week, he's only sold 5 toothbrushes. The manger sits him down and says look, you need to sell at least 200 hundred brushes to meet quota, maybe you should look for a different job." The man say's "I know I can do this please have faith in me." So he goes out for another week. He comes back at the end of his second week, and he's only sold 12 toothbrushes. The sales manager says "Well your two weeks are up, and you aren't even close. We need to let you go." The man says "Please, please give me one more week, I'll make good, you'll see." The manager says "Well, against my better judgement, okay, but just one week. The week passes and the man comes in on Friday having sold 10,000 toothbrushes. The manager is floored. How the hell did you sell that many toothbrushes. "Well" the man says "I picked a sweet spot in the middle of mall traffic. Then I set up a small brightly colored booth. Finally I set up hundreds of toothbrushes and a place to sample crackers. People would come by, try a cracker, and yell, this tastes like shit... I'd say, it is shit, wanna buy a toothbrush?"
And I would label "radical pessimism" an inflammatory autoimmune illness.
They just get trojans.
That's because of their extraordinary sex lives... Macs like them ribbed for her pleasure!!!
Don't get me wrong, I applaud both your logic and your integrity... the only fly in the ointment is the cheesy lot that think something for nothing is a gawd given right. You can only have beautiful things by investing in them. It is a wise man who knows upon which side his bread is buttered. You speak of scarcity, if nothing else in this culture is scarce, it would be wisdom.
Yea Brother. In the beginning the Usenet was a sweet and lovely thing. Yes there were occasional flamewars, but since it was tied to real email addresses acolytes couldn't be a colossal rectal orifices without ultimately suffering holy sanctions. The thing started out representing thought spaces for work, creation, then play, then strange things began to creep into the Usenet. Alt.sex spawned Alt.sex.small. furry. animals.bin... all sort and kinds ontological sewage backed up into the Usenet converting it from a gather place of ideas into an unwholesome sewer pipe. Spam was the primary engine of its decay, ultimately dumping filth into every good and legitimate channel as well as every off color threads. Spam has been the force behind the slaughter of many useful resources. I hope there is a special place in third level of hell for spammers, somewhere between politicians and use car salesmen.