Dongtan... shit; I'm still only in Dongtan... Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in a real city. When I was home after my first visit, it was worse. I'd wake up and there'd be nothing... no emissions at all. I hardly said a word to my wife, until I said "yes" to a divorce. She got the Prius and the Honda Clarity... When I was here, I wanted to waste energy; when I was there, all I could think of was getting back into this green city. I'm here a week now... trying to be efficient... getting more wasteful; every minute I stay in this room, I get more carbon positive, and every minute Mao squats in the bush, he gets greener. Each time I looked around, the walls moved in a little tighter...
I'm such a cold hearted misanthrope, I wouldn't care. What's the job pay? Maybe I could do that when I can retire from my regular job. Do i get bonus pay for reducing the target to more than a certain number of chunks?
Tax everyone into oblivion to create massive, feel-good education programs that politicians can use to fool people into thinking the politicians are human, and watch them fail to work because the *real* problem is that people just don't give enough of a shit to change their ways.
BILL: Hi, I'm Bill gates. I'm a billionaire and one of the richest men in the world. I have power beyond anything you can imagine.
MAC: Um...
(Gates pulls out a pistol and shoots Mac in the head. Mac falls to the ground in a vast pool of blood and gore)
BILL: I can do that to your family and never worry about any sort of prosecution ever penetrating my vast army of lawyers. I can topple our government with a set of well placed bribes, or push the global economy into a depression. Buy Vista or I'll make all your lives a fucking nightmare from which you'll never awaken. It's the lesser of two evils, believe me. I wouldn't lie to you because I don't have to.
MAC: *gurgle*
(Bill puts three more rounds into Mac)
BILL: That was your wife and two kids, bitches. capisca?
Am I the only one who still can't figure how McCain went from practically laying off his campaign staff to being the nominee in (in political terms) an eyeblink? Has anyone really looked into that?
There's nothing intrinsic about capitalism or the free market that dictates many of these problems, if they truly *are* problems. Your "freedom to starve" is a false dichotomy. All this "[$IDEOLOGY] sucks" type of arguing is silly.
Any system, within reason, can probably be made to work. Sweden (very socialist) and the United States are consistently together in the top ten countries with the best standards of living. Trying to blame or credit a *system* is fruitless rather than analyzing the particular implementation.
Good god it appears to be the phrase of the year "We are just modern slaves". Top of the shop of abuse of the term is Sepp "I'm a nutter" Blatter who in reference to someone who is paid about $300,000 A WEEK said that it was just like modern slavery [google.co.uk].
I saw a black guy on a news show about five years ago who still considered himself a slave.
He was the mayor of a major American metropolis. I forget which. Something on the level of Cincinnati or St. Louis.
I'm boycotting the olympics but not primarily because of China. The whole overcommercialized, performance enhancing drug fueled, censorship and copyright problem ridden thing disgusts me to the core. It is the polar opposite of what the olympic spirit was.
Wow. You're *cool*!
I'm automatically excluding every brand on my purchase list as long as they feature ads in the Olympics theme or sponsor the Olympics.
I think you might be living off the land, then. There's probably even an official toilet bowl cleaner, official term life insurance, official concrete walkway paver and official French tickler condom of the Beijing Olympics. Oh noes! It am EVERYWHERE! AAAAH!
But yet somehow the mainstream media will ignore this because the Olympics are patriotic or something.
Huh? Someone sprained an ideology tendon or something.
Anyway.
China: We want to censor web sites. IOC: OK. China: Now, don't argue with- wait... what? IOC: We said OK. China:... Oh. IOC: (blank smile) China: Can we censor phone calls and email? IOC: You got it! China: Our guards would like to strip search the athletes. IOC: OK! China: Hourly. IOC: No problem! Deep cavity searches? China: Um, yes? IOC: Agreed. China: Make them wear ball gags, tie their hands behind their backs, jump around and shout "squawk squawk squawk" after singing the My Little Teapot song. IOC: Yessir! China: Of course our athletes are exempt from this. IOC: Okey Dokey! China: (pause) Can we put nipple clamps on you and kick you all in the crotch? IOC: That would be just tickey-boo! With pants or without? China: Sweet!
Newsom is the one who really touted it and openly welcomed illegal aliens to come hide in his city.
Cities including Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Boston, Houston, Philadelphia, Seattle, the entire state of Alaska, all of DC and quite a few others also have sanctuary laws.
And?
Besides, the fact that someone is here illegally has little to do with the chances of them being an insane homicidal murderer.
A completely backward, strawman version of what I said.
It never occurred to this brain dead megabozo that when you say "Come one come all to our sanctuary. We'll hide you!" that there will be bad people to take advantage of that? A complete and utter tool.
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... but what about all the other cities that won't be "green" in order to support this "one" that is???
Those will be blue.
Dongtan... shit; I'm still only in Dongtan... Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in a real city. When I was home after my first visit, it was worse. I'd wake up and there'd be nothing... no emissions at all. I hardly said a word to my wife, until I said "yes" to a divorce. She got the Prius and the Honda Clarity... When I was here, I wanted to waste energy; when I was there, all I could think of was getting back into this green city. I'm here a week now... trying to be efficient... getting more wasteful; every minute I stay in this room, I get more carbon positive, and every minute Mao squats in the bush, he gets greener. Each time I looked around, the walls moved in a little tighter...
...I can't get seasons 1 and 2 of Reboot because the current copyright owners (Universal) are just sitting on it.
Geez, did I ever get troll modded! Has Slashdot lost the ability to perceive satire?
Yeah, yeah, dumb question.
Textbook definition of "slow news day."
Next thing you know they will be letting the gays adopt Linux!
What?
I'm such a cold hearted misanthrope, I wouldn't care. What's the job pay? Maybe I could do that when I can retire from my regular job. Do i get bonus pay for reducing the target to more than a certain number of chunks?
Too funny! I emailed it around to a bunch of friends.
IP violation! I'm totally suing!!!!!!
PS: !!!!!!!
Bill Gates always comes across, to me anyway, as a fairly likeable, if insanely rich, geek.
Yeah, I was, like, joking, you know?
I hope this helps.
Tax everyone into oblivion to create massive, feel-good education programs that politicians can use to fool people into thinking the politicians are human, and watch them fail to work because the *real* problem is that people just don't give enough of a shit to change their ways.
Me? Cynical? Damned right!
Actually, that sounds like the *perfect* name for an ad man. Even better than Boole Shitte or his brother Jack.
MAC: Hi, I'm a Mac.
BILL: Hi, I'm Bill gates. I'm a billionaire and one of the richest men in the world. I have power beyond anything you can imagine.
MAC: Um...
(Gates pulls out a pistol and shoots Mac in the head. Mac falls to the ground in a vast pool of blood and gore)
BILL: I can do that to your family and never worry about any sort of prosecution ever penetrating my vast army of lawyers. I can topple our government with a set of well placed bribes, or push the global economy into a depression. Buy Vista or I'll make all your lives a fucking nightmare from which you'll never awaken. It's the lesser of two evils, believe me. I wouldn't lie to you because I don't have to.
MAC: *gurgle*
(Bill puts three more rounds into Mac)
BILL: That was your wife and two kids, bitches. capisca?
Am I the only one who still can't figure how McCain went from practically laying off his campaign staff to being the nominee in (in political terms) an eyeblink? Has anyone really looked into that?
You know for all the flak we give the traditional media, at least they don't have headlines like this.
Yet.
But yeah, a random comment, capitalism sucks.
That's random all right.
There's nothing intrinsic about capitalism or the free market that dictates many of these problems, if they truly *are* problems. Your "freedom to starve" is a false dichotomy. All this "[$IDEOLOGY] sucks" type of arguing is silly.
Any system, within reason, can probably be made to work. Sweden (very socialist) and the United States are consistently together in the top ten countries with the best standards of living. Trying to blame or credit a *system* is fruitless rather than analyzing the particular implementation.
Good god it appears to be the phrase of the year "We are just modern slaves". Top of the shop of abuse of the term is Sepp "I'm a nutter" Blatter who in reference to someone who is paid about $300,000 A WEEK said that it was just like modern slavery [google.co.uk].
I saw a black guy on a news show about five years ago who still considered himself a slave.
He was the mayor of a major American metropolis. I forget which. Something on the level of Cincinnati or St. Louis.
This is just so terribly, terribly funny... I mean tragic. No, it's funny.
Politics is mostly theater, faux outrage, and pandering. Why would a stunt like this cause the average Slashdot reader's blood to boil?
Because many of us are tired of politics being mostly theater, faux outrage, and pandering?
eros.com had loads of them
Get it? Loads? Ah ha ha ha! I crack me up! Comedy fuckin' gold right there!
I'm boycotting the olympics but not primarily because of China. The whole overcommercialized, performance enhancing drug fueled, censorship and copyright problem ridden thing disgusts me to the core. It is the polar opposite of what the olympic spirit was.
Wow. You're *cool*!
I'm automatically excluding every brand on my purchase list as long as they feature ads in the Olympics theme or sponsor the Olympics.
I think you might be living off the land, then. There's probably even an official toilet bowl cleaner, official term life insurance, official concrete walkway paver and official French tickler condom of the Beijing Olympics. Oh noes! It am EVERYWHERE! AAAAH!
But yet somehow the mainstream media will ignore this because the Olympics are patriotic or something.
Huh? Someone sprained an ideology tendon or something.
Anyway.
China: We want to censor web sites. ... Oh.
IOC: OK.
China: Now, don't argue with- wait... what?
IOC: We said OK.
China:
IOC: (blank smile)
China: Can we censor phone calls and email?
IOC: You got it!
China: Our guards would like to strip search the athletes.
IOC: OK!
China: Hourly.
IOC: No problem! Deep cavity searches?
China: Um, yes?
IOC: Agreed.
China: Make them wear ball gags, tie their hands behind their backs, jump around and shout "squawk squawk squawk" after singing the My Little Teapot song.
IOC: Yessir!
China: Of course our athletes are exempt from this.
IOC: Okey Dokey!
China: (pause) Can we put nipple clamps on you and kick you all in the crotch?
IOC: That would be just tickey-boo! With pants or without?
China: Sweet!
Newsom is the one who really touted it and openly welcomed illegal aliens to come hide in his city.
Cities including Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Boston, Houston, Philadelphia, Seattle, the entire state of Alaska, all of DC and quite a few others also have sanctuary laws.
And?
Besides, the fact that someone is here illegally has little to do with the chances of them being an insane homicidal murderer.
A completely backward, strawman version of what I said.
Endless, screaming hot sex with supermodels and starlets.
Mmmmyep.
You *did* cash in your options before the tech bubble burst, right?
will in fact place the City of San Francisco in danger
Well, there's already enough danger thanks to Mayor Gavin Newsom's policies.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/21/BA5C11SK2S.DTL&type=printable
It never occurred to this brain dead megabozo that when you say "Come one come all to our sanctuary. We'll hide you!" that there will be bad people to take advantage of that? A complete and utter tool.