I have way more choices when it comes to drug dealers than I do phone companies. Its a LOT easier to buy pot than it is to buy beer a lot of the time from the government controlled monopoly here.
Okay, you're a lucky guy.
But I stand by my assertion -- if pot were legal, it would be (a) free, or damned near; (b) available all the time; (c) available in plenty of varieties. Hell, it's a goddamn tenacious weed, you can hardly stop the stuff from growing.
Similar economics for cocaine, although I don't happen to be a coke user. If it were legal, it would just be another white powder stimulant, like sugar -- not free, but not expensive, either.
Indeed, this is a major reason why pot/coke/etc. remain illegal -- those currently reaping the profits only do so because these substances are illegal. The blacker the market, the richer the markup.
It further stands to reason that our dearly beloved elected officials are getting a cut of the illegal take, or maybe their balls are in the grip of organized crime -- otherwise they'd legalize and tax it.
Here's a trick for identifying scumbags: look for where there is easy money to be made by chiseling people who have few or no alternatives. Samples of this phenomenon include health care, real estate, and government. Oh, and quite often, telecommunications.
And illicit drugs -- now there's a market where bold entrepreneurs (read: scumbags) can chisel easy money out of people who have few or no alternatives.
It could also be done by the good guys to make it that much harder to find child porn. If 99.9% of labeled child porn was fake, it would be pretty pointless to search for it.
Hell, if we're going to distribute fake decoy porn... might as well sell it as advertising space.
I'm hoping for some national exposure of Rudolph Mussolini^WGiuliani's own torrid affair...
Affairs, plural.
You know who praised one of Rudy's affairs? Camille Paglia -- who opined that Rudy's mistress (Judi Nathan or Cristyne Lategano, I'm not sure which*) is a woman of substance, a genuine strong-willed career woman, with whom he conducted a decade-long relationship.
By contrast, Camille slammed B. Clinton for casually using vulnerable women like he was "riffling through a deck of cards". (Sorry, I can't find a link for this... on Salon, maybe?)
... Bernie Kerik's double affairs.
Bernie appears to be just another self-important jerk. At least Rudy has the decency to cheat with only one mistress at a time... and then marry them.
"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac." - Henry Kissinger
With all these ugly asshole Republicans getting laid so much, Kissinger must be right.
There's power; and then there's money, which is to power what merit badges are to Boy Scouts. Either one will get a man laid, if he spreads it around.
The part that proves, to me, the active complicity of the corporate media, is that these stories are incredibly exciting, and directly relevant to every American personally. Yet they're unreported, because their free, secret operation is so important to perpetuating power to make money for those corporations and their ilk.
Agreed.
Similarly, consider the relentless, well-oiled effort that goes into mocking "JFK conspiracy buffs", shooting down straw men and "Oliver Stone's Assassination Fantasies". Forty years after the fact, and still the mighty Wurlitzer of Deception churns on. Evidence, to me, that "those who dunnit" (and their successors) fear exposure. Gotta keep the next generation ignorant, ya know....
You probably know about Neil Bush's divorce, initiated by his now ex-wife because of Neil's extramarital, umm, happenstance:
The women, [Neil Bush] said, simply knocked on the door of his hotel room, entered and had sex with him. He said he did not know if they were prostitutes because they never asked for money and he did not pay them. "It was very unusual," he said. Link
But to me, the really creepy part is that his divorce lawyer is named... Rick Flowers.
I dunno. There's just something about "Rick Flowers" that creeps me out.
-kgj
PS, memo to self: Find out if there are any Republicans who actually believe their own ideology, and ask them to censure Neil for his free-hookers, anti-family lifestyle.
It is almost as if you are addicted to performing a task (browsing the internet) and the performing of the task becomes the goal, instead of working towards, something at the end.
You mean like when I push this lever, I get a happy jolt to my pleasure center, right?
The fringe elements of the NSA and CIA under Bush Sr have taken control of those organizations, and the Pentagon, the White House, and the country as a whole.
Thanks, Doc, for fleshing out my comments. We think alike.
Of course, one seldom if ever knows what the fuck is really going on, in any detail. There is no "conspiracy", singular: we live a world of conspiracies, plural and multifarious and conflicting... furthermore, the best laid plans etc. On top of which, what think we know is inevitably mucked up by disinformation and ignorance. Life's rich pageant, as scripted by murderers and thieves.
Nonetheless, one does get suspicious about chains of events...
1920's bootlegging... the Syndicate, Lansky et. al.... J. Edgar Hoover's blowjob photo... heroin smuggling... sweet deals for Lucky Luciano... rise of OSS, CIA, etc.... MK/ULTRA... Hoover and LBJ... LBJ's murderous rise to power... Nixon and the "Bay of Pigs thing"... Nixon and Jacob Rubenstein... Farewell America, November 1963... strange deaths... E. Howard Hunt et. al.... Allen Dulles et. al.... the Southeast Asia group... COINTELPRO... James Garrison's investigation... more strange deaths... the Huston plan... Watergate... spook umbrellas and shellfish toxins... E. Howard Hunt et. al. redux... (interlude: the Church Commitee)... George Bush, CIA director... (interlude: James Earl Carter)... Iran hostages, October Surprise, the Long Hand of G. Bush... cocaine, cocaine, cocaine... PROMIS... Danny Casolaro, RIP... Eugene Hasenfus... Ronald Reagan, Actor Laureate... George "I wasn't in the loop" Bush, VP... Tony Avirgan, Martha Honey... Christic Institute, RIP... President George Bush... (meanwhile, back in the USSR: former KGB chief Yuri Andropov; spooky!)... ECHELON... crack wars... Silverado Savings and Loan... Arbusto... BCCI... Enron... 9/11... Paul Wellstone, RIP... Gary Webb, RIP... America, RIP.
Good argument for dramatically reducing the size of the government, isn't it? Although I doubt it will ever be possible to reduce ours to something which can be effectively supervised.
Ummm... government, "effectively supervised"?
Supervised by what? other than... more government.
instead of cardio equipment like treadmills and excersize bikes, high quality weight machines, with the cables tied to hidden flywheels would be an excellent source of power. That makes sense.
This all started out as a ridiculous joke, but my God... the more I think about it, the more ridiculous is becomes!
Lord of the Flies meets Charles Atlas at the company store....
Besides, the cable tv provided to prisons consumes too much power. It becomes a drain on the output of the "plant".
True.
But hey -- in all the movies about prisons that I've ever watched, what are most of the prisoners doing? Pumping iron. (That, or not bending over for the soap in the shower.)
A person can generate about 1/4 horsepower with an excersize bike. Given the daily rate for unskilled labor in many countries now, we could simply rig up a giant wheel like what Conan the Barbarian pushed around as a slave in that clearly prophetic movie.
You're talking about outsourcing energy generation.
Bad idea.
Here in America, we've got a huge percentage of our population locked up in prisons. Let them do the hard work!
Pedal, you lazy dogs -- I said pedal! And get me another glass of lemonade, while you're at it....
... fabricating "most people" statements... can get you an +5:insightful
People get modded up for all kinds of bone-headed idiocy.
I myself have posted sarcastic comments (Karma-whoring for Funny, with a twist of Flamebait and Troll) and gotten modded up +Insightful and +Interesting. Result, I felt cheated -- I didn't deserve +Insightful, what idiot would call my sarcasm "Insightful"...?
With mod points as with everything else in life, I guess there's no accounting for taste....
-kgj
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Unlike most people who spout off at this site, I have the certificates to prove this...
You can't possibly have statistics about Slashdot posters and what certifications they hold.
It's in your head, dude. You fabricated your own pseudo-facts, based on your opinions.
I don't mind if you promote Windows and insult linux. I make my living on Windows, and I don't use linux -- it's all the same to me.
But you'll only get a reputation for bone-headed idiocy, if you keep fabricating "most people" statements.
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I have way more choices when it comes to drug dealers than I do phone companies. Its a LOT easier to buy pot than it is to buy beer a lot of the time from the government controlled monopoly here.
Okay, you're a lucky guy.
But I stand by my assertion -- if pot were legal, it would be (a) free, or damned near; (b) available all the time; (c) available in plenty of varieties. Hell, it's a goddamn tenacious weed, you can hardly stop the stuff from growing.
Similar economics for cocaine, although I don't happen to be a coke user. If it were legal, it would just be another white powder stimulant, like sugar -- not free, but not expensive, either.
Indeed, this is a major reason why pot/coke/etc. remain illegal -- those currently reaping the profits only do so because these substances are illegal. The blacker the market, the richer the markup.
It further stands to reason that our dearly beloved elected officials are getting a cut of the illegal take, or maybe their balls are in the grip of organized crime -- otherwise they'd legalize and tax it.
-kgj
Here's a trick for identifying scumbags: look for where there is easy money to be made by chiseling people who have few or no alternatives. Samples of this phenomenon include health care, real estate, and government. Oh, and quite often, telecommunications.
And illicit drugs -- now there's a market where bold entrepreneurs (read: scumbags) can chisel easy money out of people who have few or no alternatives.
-kgj
When you strand 32,768 passengers, they will turn negative.
Made me laugh!
-kgj
It could also be done by the good guys to make it that much harder to find child porn. If 99.9% of labeled child porn was fake, it would be pretty pointless to search for it.
... might as well sell it as advertising space.
Hell, if we're going to distribute fake decoy porn
-kgj
I'm hoping for some national exposure of Rudolph Mussolini^WGiuliani's own torrid affair ...
... on Salon, maybe?)
... Bernie Kerik's double affairs.
... and then marry them.
Affairs, plural.
You know who praised one of Rudy's affairs? Camille Paglia -- who opined that Rudy's mistress (Judi Nathan or Cristyne Lategano, I'm not sure which*) is a woman of substance, a genuine strong-willed career woman, with whom he conducted a decade-long relationship.
By contrast, Camille slammed B. Clinton for casually using vulnerable women like he was "riffling through a deck of cards". (Sorry, I can't find a link for this
Bernie appears to be just another self-important jerk. At least Rudy has the decency to cheat with only one mistress at a time
"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac." - Henry Kissinger
With all these ugly asshole Republicans getting laid so much, Kissinger must be right.
There's power; and then there's money, which is to power what merit badges are to Boy Scouts. Either one will get a man laid, if he spreads it around.
-kgj
* Lategano, I hope -- she's quite a looker!
Link
The part that proves, to me, the active complicity of the corporate media, is that these stories are incredibly exciting, and directly relevant to every American personally. Yet they're unreported, because their free, secret operation is so important to perpetuating power to make money for those corporations and their ilk.
....
Agreed.
Similarly, consider the relentless, well-oiled effort that goes into mocking "JFK conspiracy buffs", shooting down straw men and "Oliver Stone's Assassination Fantasies". Forty years after the fact, and still the mighty Wurlitzer of Deception churns on. Evidence, to me, that "those who dunnit" (and their successors) fear exposure. Gotta keep the next generation ignorant, ya know
-kgj
Goddamn. I just remembered: Operation Northwoods.
...!"
I suppose a list like this will never going to be complete. "So much to do, so little time
-kgj
You probably know about Neil Bush's divorce, initiated by his now ex-wife because of Neil's extramarital, umm, happenstance:
... Rick Flowers.
The women, [Neil Bush] said, simply knocked on the door of his hotel room, entered and had sex with him. He said he did not know if they were prostitutes because they never asked for money and he did not pay them. "It was very unusual," he said.
Link
But to me, the really creepy part is that his divorce lawyer is named
I dunno. There's just something about "Rick Flowers" that creeps me out.
-kgj
PS, memo to self:
Find out if there are any Republicans who actually believe their own ideology, and ask them to censure Neil for his free-hookers, anti-family lifestyle.
.. Enron in Afghanistan via the Dabhol power plant is at least $35B ...
... and the $1.5T S&L heist.
....
I didn't know about that one.
Whoops -- I missed that one! And what a whopper it is, too!
And, oh yeah -- the whole "Prescott Bush, Nazi Profiteer" thing
The deliciously scandalous Neil Bush divorce.
And who could forget Dubya's military service record? (Other than Dubya himself, along with the lapdog -- uhh, mass -- media.)
-kgj
It is almost as if you are addicted to performing a task (browsing the internet) and the performing of the task becomes the goal, instead of working towards, something at the end.
You mean like when I push this lever, I get a happy jolt to my pleasure center, right?
Hey -- food pellet!
Again, again!
-kgj
The fringe elements of the NSA and CIA under Bush Sr have taken control of those organizations, and the Pentagon, the White House, and the country as a whole.
... furthermore, the best laid plans etc. On top of which, what think we know is inevitably mucked up by disinformation and ignorance. Life's rich pageant, as scripted by murderers and thieves.
...
... the Syndicate, Lansky et. al. ... J. Edgar Hoover's blowjob photo ... heroin smuggling ... sweet deals for Lucky Luciano ... rise of OSS, CIA, etc. ... MK/ULTRA ... Hoover and LBJ ... LBJ's murderous rise to power ... Nixon and the "Bay of Pigs thing" ... Nixon and Jacob Rubenstein ... Farewell America, November 1963 ... strange deaths ... E. Howard Hunt et. al. ... Allen Dulles et. al. ... the Southeast Asia group ... COINTELPRO ... James Garrison's investigation ... more strange deaths ... the Huston plan ... Watergate ... spook umbrellas and shellfish toxins ... E. Howard Hunt et. al. redux ... (interlude: the Church Commitee) ... George Bush, CIA director ... (interlude: James Earl Carter) ... Iran hostages, October Surprise, the Long Hand of G. Bush ... cocaine, cocaine, cocaine ... PROMIS ... Danny Casolaro, RIP ... Eugene Hasenfus ... Ronald Reagan, Actor Laureate ... George "I wasn't in the loop" Bush, VP ... Tony Avirgan, Martha Honey ... Christic Institute, RIP ... President George Bush ... (meanwhile, back in the USSR: former KGB chief Yuri Andropov; spooky!) ... ECHELON ... crack wars ... Silverado Savings and Loan ... Arbusto ... BCCI ... Enron ... 9/11 ... Paul Wellstone, RIP ... Gary Webb, RIP ... America, RIP.
Thanks, Doc, for fleshing out my comments. We think alike.
Of course, one seldom if ever knows what the fuck is really going on, in any detail. There is no "conspiracy", singular: we live a world of conspiracies, plural and multifarious and conflicting
Nonetheless, one does get suspicious about chains of events
1920's bootlegging
Sorry, I was rambling. Did I miss much?
-kgj
No, we can only infer that if it's not deceptive, then it's not warfare.
Damn.
Well, so much for peace.
-kgj
... at least some of those get out of control. Reagan's Iran/Contra operation violated several laws ...
Iran/Contra did violate several laws (e.g. Boland Amendment), but not because the project got out of control.
Rather, the Iran/Contra conspirators deliberately circumvented the law from the outset.
Link
-kgj
Good argument for dramatically reducing the size of the government, isn't it? Although I doubt it will ever be possible to reduce ours to something which can be effectively supervised.
... government, "effectively supervised"?
... more government.
Ummm
Supervised by what? other than
-kgj
All warfare is based on deception.
-Sun Tzu
Can we infer, then, that all peace is based on truth, honesty, candor?
-kgj
Re: Augustus. He was not a king, merely he held the Consulship, Tribunition, Censorship, and Pontificate perpetually and all at the same time.
Sweet jumpin' Jehosaphat -- a Classics scholar on SlashDot!
Excellent example, very applicable. Keep up the good work.
-kgj
I thought my girlfriend was the only thing that didn't go down.
Marry someone else.
-kgj
So in the end, truth is whatever you can use to further your own aims and accuracy be damned.
Scary but true.
History is written by the winners.
-kgj
I'm going to give the guy a break instead of bonking the noob on the nose for asking.
1. Thank you -- well spoken. You are informative, generous, and polite. SlashDot needs more like you.
2. If someone submits a totally idiotic question, and a SlashDot editor posts that question, then the SlashDot editor is to blame for the idiocy.
-kgj
instead of cardio equipment like treadmills and excersize bikes, high quality weight machines, with the cables tied to hidden flywheels would be an excellent source of power. That makes sense.
... the more I think about it, the more ridiculous is becomes!
....
This all started out as a ridiculous joke, but my God
Lord of the Flies meets Charles Atlas at the company store
-kgj
Besides, the cable tv provided to prisons consumes too much power. It becomes a drain on the output of the "plant".
True.
But hey -- in all the movies about prisons that I've ever watched, what are most of the prisoners doing? Pumping iron. (That, or not bending over for the soap in the shower.)
-kgj
A person can generate about 1/4 horsepower with an excersize bike. Given the daily rate for unskilled labor in many countries now, we could simply rig up a giant wheel like what Conan the Barbarian pushed around as a slave in that clearly prophetic movie.
....
You're talking about outsourcing energy generation.
Bad idea.
Here in America, we've got a huge percentage of our population locked up in prisons. Let them do the hard work!
Pedal, you lazy dogs -- I said pedal! And get me another glass of lemonade, while you're at it
-kgj
... fabricating "most people" statements ... can get you an +5:insightful
...?
....
People get modded up for all kinds of bone-headed idiocy.
I myself have posted sarcastic comments (Karma-whoring for Funny, with a twist of Flamebait and Troll) and gotten modded up +Insightful and +Interesting. Result, I felt cheated -- I didn't deserve +Insightful, what idiot would call my sarcasm "Insightful"
With mod points as with everything else in life, I guess there's no accounting for taste
-kgj
Unlike most people who spout off at this site, I have the certificates to prove this ...
You can't possibly have statistics about Slashdot posters and what certifications they hold.
It's in your head, dude. You fabricated your own pseudo-facts, based on your opinions.
I don't mind if you promote Windows and insult linux. I make my living on Windows, and I don't use linux -- it's all the same to me.
But you'll only get a reputation for bone-headed idiocy, if you keep fabricating "most people" statements.
-kgj
What is it about Anonymous Cowards and swallowing?
-kgj