I would have to disagree with that. We have not had a problem of too-small government for decades, if not a century.
The problem is people who don't believe in government. Ron Paul does not believe in government, just like the republicans than have been running this country for the greatest part of the last 30 years.
Try this for a test: try having a government run by people who believe in having one and care about running it well.
The problem is not that people are so stupid as to make horrible decisions or that they are smart enough to make better decisions than the government, because neither of those really matter. The problem is that people are too ignorant to make most policy decisions and that's why we have a representative democracy in the first place. Most of us don't know or care to know what is required to do the bulk of the tasks required of any government, and beyond a basic level most of us shouldn't have to. But anyone who is stupid enough to support or vote for someone who is not interested in having that knowledge so that they are in the position to make good decisions is a fucking idiot. Supporters of Ron Paul fall heavily into this category. They're either too stupid to understand that government requires people who believe there should be one (and there HAS to be if you don't want to go Mad Max style, at which point I'll be on the way to your house in a semi with my boomerang) or so ignorant as to be indistinguishable from stupid.
It isn't about "small government" vs "big government". It's about bad government (what we have), good government (what we should have), and no government (which is the worst of the three). Ron Paul believes in basically no government because he is an insane anarchist. I'd rather have a complete moron like mike huckabee in there than an idiot like Ron Paul, and that's saying quite a bit.
Excuse me, but are you a fucking idiot? Ron Paul is an anarchist. Even the most crazy stupid ultra right/left-wing idiots don't want that shit. Seriously, as bad as the entire republican lineup is this year (and luckily they're going to get beat like a pinata) Ron Paul would be worse if he became president and actually got to do what he wanted.
Luckily for the rest of us there aren't enough of you idiots to actually get this guy elected, or even nominated. Though that credit is probably more due to how fucking stupid the christian republican bloc is than the limited numbers of anarchist assholes out there.
You do realize that it's EXACTLY the kind of thinking that Ron Paul has that has lead to our current problems, don't you? We've been giving people the the "freedom" to be morons and then dismantling the government agencies that would have allowed them not to be because we keep electing people who don't believe in government to run it.
I'm not ready to say that Ron Paul is as evil as the current bastards we've got, but he's certainly no great thinker if he isn't and he's a dangerous anarchist who probably fantasizes about the Mad Max future of America without realizing that we'd all be coming for him with our boomerangs.
Voting against using the federal government for some activity does not mean you are opposed to the activity.
In many cases this is actually not true. There are things that the federal government (remember, that's us. we hire our bitches to go to Washington and do what we want) is in the position to do and if we don't use the government to do those things they don't get done. It is irrelevant if he personally "opposes" the activity since he clearly opposes actually doing it there is no practical difference.
Ron Paul is against the *FEDERAL* government doing just about anything. Unlike all the other candidates he consistently states his principles and votes them.
And for these ideas, which are either insane or profoundly stupid, no one should be supporting this guy. He's an anarchist and would destroy America beyond anything we can imagine, and after 7 years of bush we can all certainly imagine a lot.
Ron Paul is for *your* right to spend *your* money to support any activity you want.
Yes, because he's an anarchist and would destroy our society.
Ron Paul is *against* taking *your* money and spending it on things you do not support.
Again, because he's a fucking anarchist. As a society there are things that we need and sometimes that means you can't do everything you want and sometimes you have to go along with stuff that you don't like so much. That's the price of being a member of society. If you don't want to be part of it you'd better get on a boat and hope you can find an island where no one will ever find you. Because I guarantee that if the world went to the Mad Max anarchy that Ron Paul would love that he, and all the other anarchist morons, would soon learn the depths of their mistake because I'd be coming for them.
I believe in the right to abortion- Paul is opposed to it personally but also philosophically is opposed to the federal government getting involved with the issue at all. That and MANY other issues are state and local issues.
Ron Paul is for your freedom to live your own life, take your own risks, and support your own causes. He's against making the federal government a powerful tool to use against you.
It's funny that you talk about freedom and then don't believe in the institutions that give you freedom. Destroying the federal government as Ron Paul is proposing would drastically take away your freedoms. I know you think that things are so bad because the big bad federal government is running wild and spying and torturing and destroying everything, but you're wrong. The current federal government is so horrible because the people running it don't believe in government. Electing another idiot who doesn't believe in government is certainly not the answer.
And I have to assume that Ron Paul is a complete and total idiot, because if he isn't and has even remotely thought through his positions, and still thinks they are a good idea then he is a gravely evil man. So I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he's just a moron and I'll be doing the same for you.
Duke Nukem Forever is actually part of a plan to prevent the demise of the universe. Because Duke Nukem Forever will eventually come out so time can't stop before that happens. But since it is never going to come out that means that time can never end. So how about a little more love for 3D Realms? Those guys are just doing their part to save us. All their "competition" does is release games.
Yoo? Don't you mean Xii, pronounced "zee", which will be released in November 2011 and will lead to endless confusion a further two generations down the line with the release of their Zii console.
It's kind of hard to side with any of them. Gamespot's site sucks and their reviews are the worst (which is no easy feat) so as individuals they are either shills or just incompetent idiots and as a corporation they employ either shills or incompetent idiots. And not to sound like a troll (I'm letting them off pretty easy), but fuck I hope the site just dies.
They turned a profit for ONE quarter. As a division they're still seriously in the red. With the $1.3 billion (or whatever) warranty extension they did a few months back they'll be staying there for a long, long time.
Ratchet & Clank is great, as they always seem to be, but I just don't find Tools of Destruction as good as the older ones. There are fewer things to collect and a lot less to discover by returning to previous levels. I also really miss the ship combat and customization that was present in earlier titles, though maybe I'm the only one. An 88% score seems totally reasonable to me. It's a great game, and the first game to get me to buy an HD console, but it was a little disappointing on depth compared to the PS2 installments.
You also should not discount Uncharted, that game is fantastic. I'm probably in the minority here, but I'd take those two games over the big exclusives (Halo, Mass Effect) on 360. I just wish that FIFA and Pro Evolution hadn't gotten the long end of the shit stick on PS3.
This is a great example of a knee-jerk anti-nuclear response, completely devoid of any facts, data or evidence to support the position. We don't have anywhere to store the carbon we're releasing now! At least there will be thousands of times less waste with reactors.
When did I ever claim to support burning carbon, dick?
We're now at the point where, no matter what solution we come up with, we HAVE to worry about the waste. Up until now we've been worried about nuclear waste, but happily ignored the carbon. No longer feasible! Nuclear is far from perfect, but it is sooo much cleaner and safer than coal it isn't even funny.
Wow, that's all you've got? "It's cleaner than coal!!" Get the fuck out! We shouldn't be burning any sort of fossil fuel AND we shouldn't be usuing nuclear reactors. And we don't need to.
Just because we COULD use nuclear does not mean that we should. There's no where to put the radioactive waste and without HUGE government subsidies (no private insurer will cover nuclear power plants) it's prohibitively expensive for the private companies running them and with the subsidies it's outrageously expensive for us to pay for it just to make these greedy assholes richer.
Nuclear power is NOT the answer, it never has been and never will be. If we can't do better than this bullshit we might as well all just go out back and shoot ourselves because there is nothing left for failure that is humanity.
I was going to ask if it runs on Linux, but you just HAD to link their site, didn't you? You're going to ruin the memescape around here with that kind of crap, buddy.
If those kids can get the 6'+ ground clearance they'd need to accomplish the feat they're more than welcome to do it, as far as I'm concerned. As long as they video tape it and put it on YouTube. Because that would be damn impressive.
Not to mention that you don't have to look far to find white terrorists (they're almost all christians, not scientologist though) who like to blow shit up.
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Unless the silent scooters are sneaking the mayor to his affair in the Hamptons.
I would have to disagree with that. We have not had a problem of too-small government for decades, if not a century.
The problem is people who don't believe in government. Ron Paul does not believe in government, just like the republicans than have been running this country for the greatest part of the last 30 years.
Try this for a test: try having a government run by people who believe in having one and care about running it well.
The problem is not that people are so stupid as to make horrible decisions or that they are smart enough to make better decisions than the government, because neither of those really matter. The problem is that people are too ignorant to make most policy decisions and that's why we have a representative democracy in the first place. Most of us don't know or care to know what is required to do the bulk of the tasks required of any government, and beyond a basic level most of us shouldn't have to. But anyone who is stupid enough to support or vote for someone who is not interested in having that knowledge so that they are in the position to make good decisions is a fucking idiot. Supporters of Ron Paul fall heavily into this category. They're either too stupid to understand that government requires people who believe there should be one (and there HAS to be if you don't want to go Mad Max style, at which point I'll be on the way to your house in a semi with my boomerang) or so ignorant as to be indistinguishable from stupid.
It isn't about "small government" vs "big government". It's about bad government (what we have), good government (what we should have), and no government (which is the worst of the three). Ron Paul believes in basically no government because he is an insane anarchist. I'd rather have a complete moron like mike huckabee in there than an idiot like Ron Paul, and that's saying quite a bit.
Excuse me, but are you a fucking idiot? Ron Paul is an anarchist. Even the most crazy stupid ultra right/left-wing idiots don't want that shit. Seriously, as bad as the entire republican lineup is this year (and luckily they're going to get beat like a pinata) Ron Paul would be worse if he became president and actually got to do what he wanted.
Luckily for the rest of us there aren't enough of you idiots to actually get this guy elected, or even nominated. Though that credit is probably more due to how fucking stupid the christian republican bloc is than the limited numbers of anarchist assholes out there.
You do realize that it's EXACTLY the kind of thinking that Ron Paul has that has lead to our current problems, don't you? We've been giving people the the "freedom" to be morons and then dismantling the government agencies that would have allowed them not to be because we keep electing people who don't believe in government to run it.
I'm not ready to say that Ron Paul is as evil as the current bastards we've got, but he's certainly no great thinker if he isn't and he's a dangerous anarchist who probably fantasizes about the Mad Max future of America without realizing that we'd all be coming for him with our boomerangs.
Voting against using the federal government for some activity does not mean you are opposed to the activity.
In many cases this is actually not true. There are things that the federal government (remember, that's us. we hire our bitches to go to Washington and do what we want) is in the position to do and if we don't use the government to do those things they don't get done. It is irrelevant if he personally "opposes" the activity since he clearly opposes actually doing it there is no practical difference.
Ron Paul is against the *FEDERAL* government doing just about anything. Unlike all the other candidates he consistently states his principles and votes them.
And for these ideas, which are either insane or profoundly stupid, no one should be supporting this guy. He's an anarchist and would destroy America beyond anything we can imagine, and after 7 years of bush we can all certainly imagine a lot.
Ron Paul is for *your* right to spend *your* money to support any activity you want.
Yes, because he's an anarchist and would destroy our society.
Ron Paul is *against* taking *your* money and spending it on things you do not support.
Again, because he's a fucking anarchist. As a society there are things that we need and sometimes that means you can't do everything you want and sometimes you have to go along with stuff that you don't like so much. That's the price of being a member of society. If you don't want to be part of it you'd better get on a boat and hope you can find an island where no one will ever find you. Because I guarantee that if the world went to the Mad Max anarchy that Ron Paul would love that he, and all the other anarchist morons, would soon learn the depths of their mistake because I'd be coming for them.
I believe in the right to abortion- Paul is opposed to it personally but also philosophically is opposed to the federal government getting involved with the issue at all. That and MANY other issues are state and local issues.
Ron Paul is for your freedom to live your own life, take your own risks, and support your own causes. He's against making the federal government a powerful tool to use against you.
It's funny that you talk about freedom and then don't believe in the institutions that give you freedom. Destroying the federal government as Ron Paul is proposing would drastically take away your freedoms. I know you think that things are so bad because the big bad federal government is running wild and spying and torturing and destroying everything, but you're wrong. The current federal government is so horrible because the people running it don't believe in government. Electing another idiot who doesn't believe in government is certainly not the answer.
And I have to assume that Ron Paul is a complete and total idiot, because if he isn't and has even remotely thought through his positions, and still thinks they are a good idea then he is a gravely evil man. So I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he's just a moron and I'll be doing the same for you.
Duke Nukem Forever is actually part of a plan to prevent the demise of the universe. Because Duke Nukem Forever will eventually come out so time can't stop before that happens. But since it is never going to come out that means that time can never end. So how about a little more love for 3D Realms? Those guys are just doing their part to save us. All their "competition" does is release games.
Yoo? Don't you mean Xii, pronounced "zee", which will be released in November 2011 and will lead to endless confusion a further two generations down the line with the release of their Zii console.
You're right, I characterized gnome too precisely to be a troll. My apologies.
OMFG! God of War typing game spin-off! Someone call David Jaffe and get him on the case. This is going to be awesome!
I thought it was Dust...
If Jack Thompson actually cared about the children he would have gotten this asshole a fucking Playstation.
It's kind of hard to side with any of them. Gamespot's site sucks and their reviews are the worst (which is no easy feat) so as individuals they are either shills or just incompetent idiots and as a corporation they employ either shills or incompetent idiots. And not to sound like a troll (I'm letting them off pretty easy), but fuck I hope the site just dies.
The gnome devs are microsoft whores and interface IDIOTS. Come on, how could you screw up such a simple troll?
How about you start here and work your way back to reality. As for calling names, that's the least that you deserve for hating America.
They turned a profit for ONE quarter. As a division they're still seriously in the red. With the $1.3 billion (or whatever) warranty extension they did a few months back they'll be staying there for a long, long time.
Ratchet & Clank is great, as they always seem to be, but I just don't find Tools of Destruction as good as the older ones. There are fewer things to collect and a lot less to discover by returning to previous levels. I also really miss the ship combat and customization that was present in earlier titles, though maybe I'm the only one. An 88% score seems totally reasonable to me. It's a great game, and the first game to get me to buy an HD console, but it was a little disappointing on depth compared to the PS2 installments.
You also should not discount Uncharted, that game is fantastic. I'm probably in the minority here, but I'd take those two games over the big exclusives (Halo, Mass Effect) on 360. I just wish that FIFA and Pro Evolution hadn't gotten the long end of the shit stick on PS3.
I've been hating on gnome and miguel de icaza for microsoft kowtowing (among other stupid actions) for YEARS! So Stallman can follow me.
How long until they get to even "lesser" crimes and start confiscating the penises of accused rapists?
This is a great example of a knee-jerk anti-nuclear response, completely devoid of any facts, data or evidence to support the position. We don't have anywhere to store the carbon we're releasing now! At least there will be thousands of times less waste with reactors.
When did I ever claim to support burning carbon, dick?
We're now at the point where, no matter what solution we come up with, we HAVE to worry about the waste. Up until now we've been worried about nuclear waste, but happily ignored the carbon. No longer feasible! Nuclear is far from perfect, but it is sooo much cleaner and safer than coal it isn't even funny.
Wow, that's all you've got? "It's cleaner than coal!!" Get the fuck out! We shouldn't be burning any sort of fossil fuel AND we shouldn't be usuing nuclear reactors. And we don't need to.
People like you don't deserve to live, hopefully you won't for long.
1) Who cares?
2) Who cares?
3) Who cares?
Just because we COULD use nuclear does not mean that we should. There's no where to put the radioactive waste and without HUGE government subsidies (no private insurer will cover nuclear power plants) it's prohibitively expensive for the private companies running them and with the subsidies it's outrageously expensive for us to pay for it just to make these greedy assholes richer.
Nuclear power is NOT the answer, it never has been and never will be. If we can't do better than this bullshit we might as well all just go out back and shoot ourselves because there is nothing left for failure that is humanity.
Perhaps you didn't realize that the average price of a Wii on eBay is between $400 and $450. That's a markup of 60-80%.
I was going to ask if it runs on Linux, but you just HAD to link their site, didn't you? You're going to ruin the memescape around here with that kind of crap, buddy.
If those kids can get the 6'+ ground clearance they'd need to accomplish the feat they're more than welcome to do it, as far as I'm concerned. As long as they video tape it and put it on YouTube. Because that would be damn impressive.
Not to mention that you don't have to look far to find white terrorists (they're almost all christians, not scientologist though) who like to blow shit up.