Just block all connections between China and the rest or the world for a week or so. Let's see if China feels the economic impact. If it doesn't stop America and others should simply default on all loans from China. The saving on interest payments will more than allow them to balance their books.
Seriously, any person or company that deals with China any more than they have to gets what they deserve. Why are we dealing with them anyway. Oh yeah, there is so much POTENTIAL for trade with them. Oh wait I forgot, there isn't any western country that isn't running a trade deficit with China. So I ask, why the fuck are we even dealing with them? So Wall Street types can make more profit because Chinese work for peanuts and the profit margins of companies with Chinese labour is so good? Meanwhile, the rest of society is going bankrupt because they are so stupid they continuously pay to support the act of losing their jobs to overseas markets. Yeah times are tough and you need to cut back. Stop buying at China loving Wall Mart, get rid of the extra cars you buy your kids and tell them to ride their fucking bicycles to school like kids used to do. Stop buying the second, third, fourth, big screen LCD TVs. GET FUCKING REAL.
Boycot the Chines motherfuckers. They are the ones allowing Iran to enrich weapons grade fissionables so that they can fuel the process of taking our manufacturing jobs (ironically, with the help of Wall Street). Chop it off now. They are a rotting gangrenous limb on the rest of the world. You can't make friends with a dictator without it somehow affecting you. Internet attacks, aggressive military actions on Tibet and towards Taiwan, and the loss of tens of millions of manufacturing jobs. Working with China has NOT been beneficial to the west. At least not to the average person.
I am working, so this is not a rant from someone recently unemployed. It is a rant at what I see as a downward spiral because greed keeps us dealing with China because we see the false promise of riches. Every time the cost of their goods goes up, they drop the value of their currency, and while we can complain about it, there is nothing that we can actually do about it. Americans and the rest of the west, INCLUDING EUROPE AND CANADA, have all been pussified. Everyone wants their 3000 square foot home and lazyboy chair and football game on TV on Sunday. And no one is ever responsible for their own actions.
So fuck it, stop bitching about Chinese internet attacks, bend over, and let them insert their collective (get it, communists), their collective cocks up you ass. At least you get a cheap DVD player and big screen out of the deal.
It works better for licenses that don't let you take all the work that someone takes their time and thus money (since they can't earn a living if they are spending their time developing something on their own) to build and give it away for free just by 'forking' the code. There is no incentive to build quality programs for sale on a store with the GPL model. Small apps are just that, small. It is highly unlikely that you will be paid to support one. How many applications out there for your PC do you pay for support? Most just work pretty good because the monetary incentive is there to build it to work well, or no-one will buy it from you and you starve.
Don't get me wrong. I like Linux and BSD, and think it makes a great server platform. But then again, server apps are what businesses WILL pay money for, for support. That is why there are lots of good server based products for Linux, and lots of marginal quality products for userland. I know for example that there are some Linux DAW's (digital audio workstation) out there, like Audacity, and a few others with more features. But none come close to Cubase 5 or it's commercial competitors. No one pays for support for them. They provide more features that work right, right out of the box. Sure they charge a lot, but it is a very complex program that they make work very well the first time you install it... and they have incentive to provide patches for issues quickly so they don't lose their customers if there is a problem. It is why I use Cubase and not Audicity.
Anyway, I use Linux server apps all the time. Other work is done on windows. I notice the development tools for the server apps exist for Linux, but the software design tools are almost exclusively in Windows. We use Postgres at work for its GIS functionality (sure MySQL has *some* GIS functionality but it is very limited and *way* behind Postgres in this respect). There are no open source ERD tools that are worth a shit for Postgres that run in Linux. Quest makes Toad Data Modeler that supports Postgres for a reasonable price. While its support for Postgres is not as good as for Oracle or SQL Server (their bread and butter), it is still miles beyond the open source offerings. That is because they are complex tools that take a lot of effort to build, and you don't make any money with them if it is open source, because leaches 'fork' your code after you have done all the hard work, and kill your business. That is why the company that originally made the Toad Data Modeler couldn't make enough money and were bought by Quest. Leaches kill. Sure the license says it's ok, but it is what holds Linux back. It is why I pay for my distributions that I use at home. Someone has to earn a living in order for them to keep putting out distributions. That is why I don't use distros like CentOS. Sure Redhat open sources all their admin tools, so let's use their stuff because we don't want to pay them for the work they did, instead of paying them and using open source for what it was originally intended, to be able to modify the stuff you now own. [dismounts soapbox]
I saw Lynch's version in the theatre when it came out. It sucked then and it still sucks now. Everyone I know said it sucked, including my chemical engineering classmates (i.e. geeks). It was one of the few times when the planets aligned and the common people agreed with the film critics: the film stank worse than a menstruating skunk's asshole. They should have burned the fucking thing and then buried it in a hole. Except you probably wouldn't have been able to grow anything in the earth around it for a couple thousand years. Good on this fellow for trying to avoid Lynch's "vision".
It makes sense. Apple fanboys and fangirls already like to overpay for Apple products. So now they can feel even more superior because they have overpriced publications with an 'i' in front of them.
Maybe this will lead to allowing people who know what they're doing to produce requirements so they actually specify things that are doable instead of pie in the sky vapourware. No, never mind, that's probably too much to hope for. Sales people are too fucking arrogant to understand that just because they sell something they understand it.
You still need to play in key using the right chords at the right time. His left hand on the fretboard in actually forming chords like you would with real strings. At least it looks like it to me... and I play guitar (and bass, and drums, and... but mostly guitar).
It's not really a guitar. It is a synthesizer that sounds like a guitar with distortion. I do play guitar. There is a joke among proficient guitar players where the term 'talent pedal' or 'talent booster pedal' is used in place of 'distortion pedal'. While a lot of good players do use distortion, it is used by a lot of not so good, or downright bad players to cover up their bad playing. When you hear that computer sound in singer's voices in the pop songs that are out there today (i.e. young girls and sometimes boys picked by studio execs because they look pretty and cool, not necessarily because of talent), it is usually the result of 'pitch correction'. This is technology that allows the engineer to move off key singing back into proper pitch within their Digital Audio Workstation. I like cool sounds too... maybe this is the democratization of music. Maybe this will allow people with no talent or no will or desire to devote the practice it needs to gain proficiency to be able to have their own music.
I have nothing against guitar synthesizers. In fact I like them a lot, and will likely look at this one if and when it hits the market. But if the guy wanted to really show it as a guitar, he would show us what it sounds like with a 'clean' guitar sound too. That way we can here how well it allows a person to create musical phrases, control the timing of when the notes are produced, control it in general, that sort of thing. I'm not saying it can't, but distortion covers that up.
And by the way, I've seen a number of heavy metal musicians (good ones) who are closet jazz freaks too.:) I'm not saying jazz is better... I like it but listen to it as much as I do heavy metal... but my gauge of what talent is, is not limited by what genre a musician plays.
What threat? You are the one making threats. I never said anything about kicking anyone's head in. So you have defined yourself as a pansy ass loser. Good on you. I hope you are taking your medication. I said I would hightail it to the country because I know that if the police stopped working, the real criminals would take over and it wouldn't be safe in the cities. I think it was pretty easy to figure that out without explanation... try taking a critical reading course. It sounds like you find the thought of having to defend yourself instead of relying on police threatening. Is this what prompted your violent outburst. I get it, you are by nature unstable and violent, and that is why you don't like police. You probably don't like laws in general, and would rather have free reign to do do what you want. By the way, I live in Canada again. I don't own a gun even though I did my time in the Canadian army. Have you spent any time contributing in any way to your country? Post your neighborhood.
If I had time to hightail it to the country, I'd like to see all police stop work for a week just to show idiots like you who the "real" criminals are. You would be crying for the police to come back within a day.
I'm not sure if the above comment (#30873050) is correct or not, but I don't see why it is marked as flamebait. Is it possible the moderator who did this works for paypal?
One book I read said that when the white man first came over, the natives thought they were screwing them over. At least in the north with the fur trade. Hey! these guys are giving us guns and metal implements for fucking fur of all things. Boy are they dumb. Meanwhile they would take the guns and metal arrow heads and kick the shit out of the other tribes who didn't have access to the white man's goods, taking over their land in the process. Making a mockery of the 'we took their land' crowd. Back then, if you thought you had an advantage, then you used it to screw over your rivals. That is why one of the reasons the Hurons allied themselves with the French. It gave them an advantage over the Iroquois.
Exactly. Vice principal counseling should be revoking their license or whatever they need to teach, ripping up their diplomas, and sending them back to school, starting at about grade 5... with math and science compulsory. Oh, and a slap upside the head every second hour to keep their brains from jamming again. This is about as stupid as the born again Christian I met in Saint Louis who was a genetic engineer at Monsanto who didn't believe in evolution. Just when you think you've met an ultimate retard...
We thought it would make them love democracy. We were wrong.
Well enough of the concepts to allow a market economy... where they came to love capitalism instead. And these kinds of practices show they are very good at it. It also shows what capitalism without enough oversight can bring.
Ah yes, "...the love of money..." Personally I like money. A lot. Not enough to kill someone else for it, or bankrupt them, or prevent them from having access to affordable health care for all. But in the case of others, I guess it means America and China are now neck and neck in the capitalism race.
Not so loud. Maybe we can convince them to put cadmium in spandex and baseball hats. That would kill off most of Walmarts customers, and stop all the Chinese imports when they go out of business. We can get America working again, one set of spandex on a fat woman's ass at a time.
Bounty hunters are an American thing. In other countries you cannot just walk in somewhere with a gun and kidnap people just because you post a sign over your door saying 'bounty hunter', and get a $50 license from the local sheriff. They will be arrested for kidnapping if they try. American bounty hunters have been arrested for kidnapping for grabbing people from countries outside of America. Daniel Kear was convicted of kidnapping in Canada and sent to prison after he grabbed a fleeing felon from Toronto and taking him back to the U.S.A. And Dwayne Dawg Chapman was charged by Mexican police for a similar incident down there.
This guy is ENGLISH! Come on man, "UK". That means United Kingdom. He escaped from a prison NE of London. England. What has extradition to the United States have to do with anything? Anyway, most of the places in your list look worse than being in a British prison.
It was likely one of the rabidly "politically correct"; who does not realize that truth is truth whether their liberalism allows them to see it or not.
Yeah, I thought this idea was already out there. i.e. that the Mediterranean Sea was created when the Atlantic poured in via the Straight of Gibraltar. This is kind of like stating something that someone else said ten or twenty years ago.
SICKNESS:
No excuse...We will no longer accept your doctor's statement as proof. We believe that if you are able to go to the doctor, you are able to come to work.
AN OPERATION:
We are no longer allowing this practice. We wish to discourage any thoughts that you may need an operation. We believe that as long as you are an employee here, you will need all of whatever you have and should not consider having anything removed. We hired you as you are, and to have anything removed would certainly make you less than we bargained for.
DEATH:
Other than your own: This is no excuse for missing work. There is nothing you can do for them, and we are sure that someone else can attend to the arrangements. However, if the funeral can be held in the late afternoon, we will be glad to allow you to work through your lunch hour and subsequently let you leave 1 hour early, provided your share of the work is ahead enough to keep the job going in your absence.
Your own death: This will be accepted as an excuse. However, we require at least two weeks notice as we feel it is your duty to train your replacement.
ALSO:
Entirely too much time is being spent in the restroom. In the future, we will follow the practice of going in alphabetical order. For instance, those whose names begin with "A" will go from 8:00-8:15, and so on. If you're unable to go at your time, it will be necessary to wait until the next day when your time comes again.
We appreciate your cooperation,
THE MANAGEMENT
This is an old joke (and way older from what I know, than the linked newspaper article). But anyway tistork, you might still agree with it agree with it even if it is a joke. If so, then you definitely have real management potential.
On another note, well before the public internet and email, I took this and ummm copied my high school's official letterhead and signature section (with the school principal's signature) onto it. Then I made around 500 copies and left them lying around all over the place (2000 student population). It was excellent to see how many people freaked out before they figured out it was a joke. Amazing how people look for the worst some times... and amazing how much fun you can have with that too, sometimes.:) In the end the principal actually told me he thought it was one of the better jokes pulled at the school.:D
You have a slashdot ID that low and you STILL live in your parent's basement? Planning on moving out when you're what? 45? That in itself makes you not credible. So how about you STFU. There is a reason so many work places are smoke free now. And it isn't because people just want to keep the good effects of smoking to themselves. Retard.
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Just block all connections between China and the rest or the world for a week or so. Let's see if China feels the economic impact. If it doesn't stop America and others should simply default on all loans from China. The saving on interest payments will more than allow them to balance their books.
Seriously, any person or company that deals with China any more than they have to gets what they deserve. Why are we dealing with them anyway. Oh yeah, there is so much POTENTIAL for trade with them. Oh wait I forgot, there isn't any western country that isn't running a trade deficit with China. So I ask, why the fuck are we even dealing with them? So Wall Street types can make more profit because Chinese work for peanuts and the profit margins of companies with Chinese labour is so good? Meanwhile, the rest of society is going bankrupt because they are so stupid they continuously pay to support the act of losing their jobs to overseas markets. Yeah times are tough and you need to cut back. Stop buying at China loving Wall Mart, get rid of the extra cars you buy your kids and tell them to ride their fucking bicycles to school like kids used to do. Stop buying the second, third, fourth, big screen LCD TVs. GET FUCKING REAL.
Boycot the Chines motherfuckers. They are the ones allowing Iran to enrich weapons grade fissionables so that they can fuel the process of taking our manufacturing jobs (ironically, with the help of Wall Street). Chop it off now. They are a rotting gangrenous limb on the rest of the world. You can't make friends with a dictator without it somehow affecting you. Internet attacks, aggressive military actions on Tibet and towards Taiwan, and the loss of tens of millions of manufacturing jobs. Working with China has NOT been beneficial to the west. At least not to the average person.
I am working, so this is not a rant from someone recently unemployed. It is a rant at what I see as a downward spiral because greed keeps us dealing with China because we see the false promise of riches. Every time the cost of their goods goes up, they drop the value of their currency, and while we can complain about it, there is nothing that we can actually do about it. Americans and the rest of the west, INCLUDING EUROPE AND CANADA, have all been pussified. Everyone wants their 3000 square foot home and lazyboy chair and football game on TV on Sunday. And no one is ever responsible for their own actions.
So fuck it, stop bitching about Chinese internet attacks, bend over, and let them insert their collective (get it, communists), their collective cocks up you ass. At least you get a cheap DVD player and big screen out of the deal.
It works better for licenses that don't let you take all the work that someone takes their time and thus money (since they can't earn a living if they are spending their time developing something on their own) to build and give it away for free just by 'forking' the code. There is no incentive to build quality programs for sale on a store with the GPL model. Small apps are just that, small. It is highly unlikely that you will be paid to support one. How many applications out there for your PC do you pay for support? Most just work pretty good because the monetary incentive is there to build it to work well, or no-one will buy it from you and you starve.
Don't get me wrong. I like Linux and BSD, and think it makes a great server platform. But then again, server apps are what businesses WILL pay money for, for support. That is why there are lots of good server based products for Linux, and lots of marginal quality products for userland. I know for example that there are some Linux DAW's (digital audio workstation) out there, like Audacity, and a few others with more features. But none come close to Cubase 5 or it's commercial competitors. No one pays for support for them. They provide more features that work right, right out of the box. Sure they charge a lot, but it is a very complex program that they make work very well the first time you install it... and they have incentive to provide patches for issues quickly so they don't lose their customers if there is a problem. It is why I use Cubase and not Audicity.
Anyway, I use Linux server apps all the time. Other work is done on windows. I notice the development tools for the server apps exist for Linux, but the software design tools are almost exclusively in Windows. We use Postgres at work for its GIS functionality (sure MySQL has *some* GIS functionality but it is very limited and *way* behind Postgres in this respect). There are no open source ERD tools that are worth a shit for Postgres that run in Linux. Quest makes Toad Data Modeler that supports Postgres for a reasonable price. While its support for Postgres is not as good as for Oracle or SQL Server (their bread and butter), it is still miles beyond the open source offerings. That is because they are complex tools that take a lot of effort to build, and you don't make any money with them if it is open source, because leaches 'fork' your code after you have done all the hard work, and kill your business. That is why the company that originally made the Toad Data Modeler couldn't make enough money and were bought by Quest. Leaches kill. Sure the license says it's ok, but it is what holds Linux back. It is why I pay for my distributions that I use at home. Someone has to earn a living in order for them to keep putting out distributions. That is why I don't use distros like CentOS. Sure Redhat open sources all their admin tools, so let's use their stuff because we don't want to pay them for the work they did, instead of paying them and using open source for what it was originally intended, to be able to modify the stuff you now own. [dismounts soapbox]
I saw Lynch's version in the theatre when it came out. It sucked then and it still sucks now. Everyone I know said it sucked, including my chemical engineering classmates (i.e. geeks). It was one of the few times when the planets aligned and the common people agreed with the film critics: the film stank worse than a menstruating skunk's asshole. They should have burned the fucking thing and then buried it in a hole. Except you probably wouldn't have been able to grow anything in the earth around it for a couple thousand years. Good on this fellow for trying to avoid Lynch's "vision".
It makes sense. Apple fanboys and fangirls already like to overpay for Apple products. So now they can feel even more superior because they have overpriced publications with an 'i' in front of them.
Maybe this will lead to allowing people who know what they're doing to produce requirements so they actually specify things that are doable instead of pie in the sky vapourware. No, never mind, that's probably too much to hope for. Sales people are too fucking arrogant to understand that just because they sell something they understand it.
You still need to play in key using the right chords at the right time. His left hand on the fretboard in actually forming chords like you would with real strings. At least it looks like it to me... and I play guitar (and bass, and drums, and ... but mostly guitar).
It's not really a guitar. It is a synthesizer that sounds like a guitar with distortion. I do play guitar. There is a joke among proficient guitar players where the term 'talent pedal' or 'talent booster pedal' is used in place of 'distortion pedal'. While a lot of good players do use distortion, it is used by a lot of not so good, or downright bad players to cover up their bad playing. When you hear that computer sound in singer's voices in the pop songs that are out there today (i.e. young girls and sometimes boys picked by studio execs because they look pretty and cool, not necessarily because of talent), it is usually the result of 'pitch correction'. This is technology that allows the engineer to move off key singing back into proper pitch within their Digital Audio Workstation. I like cool sounds too... maybe this is the democratization of music. Maybe this will allow people with no talent or no will or desire to devote the practice it needs to gain proficiency to be able to have their own music.
I have nothing against guitar synthesizers. In fact I like them a lot, and will likely look at this one if and when it hits the market. But if the guy wanted to really show it as a guitar, he would show us what it sounds like with a 'clean' guitar sound too. That way we can here how well it allows a person to create musical phrases, control the timing of when the notes are produced, control it in general, that sort of thing. I'm not saying it can't, but distortion covers that up.
And by the way, I've seen a number of heavy metal musicians (good ones) who are closet jazz freaks too. :) I'm not saying jazz is better... I like it but listen to it as much as I do heavy metal... but my gauge of what talent is, is not limited by what genre a musician plays.
What threat? You are the one making threats. I never said anything about kicking anyone's head in. So you have defined yourself as a pansy ass loser. Good on you. I hope you are taking your medication. I said I would hightail it to the country because I know that if the police stopped working, the real criminals would take over and it wouldn't be safe in the cities. I think it was pretty easy to figure that out without explanation... try taking a critical reading course. It sounds like you find the thought of having to defend yourself instead of relying on police threatening. Is this what prompted your violent outburst. I get it, you are by nature unstable and violent, and that is why you don't like police. You probably don't like laws in general, and would rather have free reign to do do what you want. By the way, I live in Canada again. I don't own a gun even though I did my time in the Canadian army. Have you spent any time contributing in any way to your country? Post your neighborhood.
I'll let the stupidity of your reply stand on its own.
If I had time to hightail it to the country, I'd like to see all police stop work for a week just to show idiots like you who the "real" criminals are. You would be crying for the police to come back within a day.
I'm not sure if the above comment (#30873050) is correct or not, but I don't see why it is marked as flamebait. Is it possible the moderator who did this works for paypal?
One book I read said that when the white man first came over, the natives thought they were screwing them over. At least in the north with the fur trade. Hey! these guys are giving us guns and metal implements for fucking fur of all things. Boy are they dumb. Meanwhile they would take the guns and metal arrow heads and kick the shit out of the other tribes who didn't have access to the white man's goods, taking over their land in the process. Making a mockery of the 'we took their land' crowd. Back then, if you thought you had an advantage, then you used it to screw over your rivals. That is why one of the reasons the Hurons allied themselves with the French. It gave them an advantage over the Iroquois.
Exactly. Vice principal counseling should be revoking their license or whatever they need to teach, ripping up their diplomas, and sending them back to school, starting at about grade 5... with math and science compulsory. Oh, and a slap upside the head every second hour to keep their brains from jamming again. This is about as stupid as the born again Christian I met in Saint Louis who was a genetic engineer at Monsanto who didn't believe in evolution. Just when you think you've met an ultimate retard...
Well enough of the concepts to allow a market economy... where they came to love capitalism instead. And these kinds of practices show they are very good at it. It also shows what capitalism without enough oversight can bring.
Ah yes, "...the love of money..." Personally I like money. A lot. Not enough to kill someone else for it, or bankrupt them, or prevent them from having access to affordable health care for all. But in the case of others, I guess it means America and China are now neck and neck in the capitalism race.
Not so loud. Maybe we can convince them to put cadmium in spandex and baseball hats. That would kill off most of Walmarts customers, and stop all the Chinese imports when they go out of business. We can get America working again, one set of spandex on a fat woman's ass at a time.
Bounty hunters are an American thing. In other countries you cannot just walk in somewhere with a gun and kidnap people just because you post a sign over your door saying 'bounty hunter', and get a $50 license from the local sheriff. They will be arrested for kidnapping if they try. American bounty hunters have been arrested for kidnapping for grabbing people from countries outside of America. Daniel Kear was convicted of kidnapping in Canada and sent to prison after he grabbed a fleeing felon from Toronto and taking him back to the U.S.A. And Dwayne Dawg Chapman was charged by Mexican police for a similar incident down there.
This guy is ENGLISH! Come on man, "UK". That means United Kingdom. He escaped from a prison NE of London. England. What has extradition to the United States have to do with anything? Anyway, most of the places in your list look worse than being in a British prison.
It was likely one of the rabidly "politically correct"; who does not realize that truth is truth whether their liberalism allows them to see it or not.
It's an 'idle' thread. How is ANYTHING off topic?
Yeah, I thought this idea was already out there. i.e. that the Mediterranean Sea was created when the Atlantic poured in via the Straight of Gibraltar. This is kind of like stating something that someone else said ten or twenty years ago.
Because it has a BSD license and not a GNU license.
And if you were on your way to California, you might be eaten by one of your friends or family.
TO: All Employees
SUBJECT: New Sick Leave Policy
SICKNESS:
No excuse...We will no longer accept your doctor's statement as proof. We believe that if you are able to go to the doctor, you are able to come to work.
AN OPERATION:
We are no longer allowing this practice. We wish to discourage any thoughts that you may need an operation. We believe that as long as you are an employee here, you will need all of whatever you have and should not consider having anything removed. We hired you as you are, and to have anything removed would certainly make you less than we bargained for.
DEATH:
Other than your own: This is no excuse for missing work. There is nothing you can do for them, and we are sure that someone else can attend to the arrangements. However, if the funeral can be held in the late afternoon, we will be glad to allow you to work through your lunch hour and subsequently let you leave 1 hour early, provided your share of the work is ahead enough to keep the job going in your absence.
Your own death: This will be accepted as an excuse. However, we require at least two weeks notice as we feel it is your duty to train your replacement.
ALSO:
Entirely too much time is being spent in the restroom. In the future, we will follow the practice of going in alphabetical order. For instance, those whose names begin with "A" will go from 8:00-8:15, and so on. If you're unable to go at your time, it will be necessary to wait until the next day when your time comes again.
We appreciate your cooperation,
THE MANAGEMENT
This is an old joke (and way older from what I know, than the linked newspaper article). But anyway tistork, you might still agree with it agree with it even if it is a joke. If so, then you definitely have real management potential.
On another note, well before the public internet and email, I took this and ummm copied my high school's official letterhead and signature section (with the school principal's signature) onto it. Then I made around 500 copies and left them lying around all over the place (2000 student population). It was excellent to see how many people freaked out before they figured out it was a joke. Amazing how people look for the worst some times... and amazing how much fun you can have with that too, sometimes. :) In the end the principal actually told me he thought it was one of the better jokes pulled at the school. :D
You have a slashdot ID that low and you STILL live in your parent's basement? Planning on moving out when you're what? 45? That in itself makes you not credible. So how about you STFU. There is a reason so many work places are smoke free now. And it isn't because people just want to keep the good effects of smoking to themselves. Retard.
whoa dude... that's heavy