Sunita: Wow. I made a record. NASA: Congrats! Sunita: This is a great place to live. NASA: Sure, why not. Now go to the galley and make dinner already.
Because the ideologically pure will still buy his stuff, and a BIG EVIL movie company gets cut out of some $$$. It's political crack to them. Moore sees the value in releasing a free sample. He has enough cash to never have to work again, so WTF does he care in the end?
But, hey, honest skepticism makes me a Troll here on SlashCult, so who cares...
But why does it have to be state funded? The think tanks and medical professional organizations of this world have publlished a bazillion papers on how to set up a fair and effective free market health care system. A lot of thought has gone into the issue. The reasons none of them get implemented is, as usual, fucking political jackassery.
The choice between what we have now and nationalized health care is a false dichotomy. There's many, many directions to go with this.
I'll also NEVER understand those so willing to put their health care in then hands of our dumbass government. That's just plain alien thinking to me.
Michael Moore is a businessman catering to a niche market of rabid idelogues. Anyone who thinks he's anything beyond that is a bloody fool.
All his oh so controversial statements are just PR and advertising for his products. The political wonks go out and buy up his product and run home to masturbate endlessly to it.
And to be fair, same deal with Ann Coulter. Anyone who wastes a single moment arguing against her is wasting time.
(Cut to shot of Mike Elgan getting kicked down a well)
LILLY: "The thousand domains of the Windows Empire decend upon you! Their popups will blot out the sun!" JOBS: "Who the fuck are and why you in my parking spot?"
POGUE: "History will remember that one browser stood against a the pile of shit that was Internet Explorer"
'The insular Apple universe is a relatively gentle place, an Athenian utopia where Apple's occasional missteps are forgiven, all partake of the many blessings of citizenship, and everyone feels like they're part of an Apple-created golden age of lofty ideas and superior design.
Lucy in the skyyyyyyyyyy wiiiith diamonds!
But the Windows world isn't like that. It's a cold, unforgiving place where nothing is sacred, users turn like rabid wolves on any company that makes even the smallest error, and no prisoners are taken.
True. True. Wolves are rarely known to take prisoners.
Especially the Windows browser market.... While security nerds were ripping Apple for a buggy beta, the UI enthusiasts started going after Apple for the look and feel.
Oh noes! Two nanocultures are not happy with a beta release! One Infinite Loop must be in flames!
The problem? Safari for Windows just isn't Windows enough.'
Well, I'm sure the Safari developers could fix this by breaking as many things as they can for the next release.
Elgan also expects that the Firefox faithful will fight the Safari influx
Or their brain cells will function and realize anything that reduces IE dominance can only be good for the web.
a theory that has been supported by comments from Mozilla executive John Lilly,
Who?
who criticized Steve Jobs' 'blurry view of real world' just after Jobs announced Safari for Windows."
Oh, Jobs! I know him! He's worth, like, THOUSANDS of dollars! I guess if he sharpens up his vision he be worth, like, TENS OF THOUSANDS!
The Democrats have been getting steadily more libertarian...
When I stop finding Democrats picking my wallet clean, I'll believe that. I live in California where the Democrat controlled state government seem hell bent on controlling my every waking moment and action. I'm sure legislature involving dreams will follow.
Unless you're in the country illegally. Then they want to hand you the keys to the city for some reason while they kick legal citizens repeatedly in the teeth. Oh, but it's racist to even think that. Oops! That's the thought police knocking at my door!
The real pisser is that we seem to have TWO authoritarian flavored parties now. For the first time in my life I have started considering retirement outside the USA.
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I think you have me confused with someone else.
I'll take a dozen, please! :)
Can they be taught basic police dog techniques?
Or, better yet, martial arts?
I mean, you put a sharp metal edge on those... wings and you've got, well, something that rocks.
Hah! Marching Penguin Bladed Wing Attack! Pow!
What do you put on the end of the elevator? An amusement park? With hookers and blackjack?
I am *so* there. What's a ticket cost?
Can someone please tell me how Apple pulls this off?
Magic runes, chutzpah and Steve Jobs' third testicle.
Disembowelment, shots to the head, criminally insane killers, rape, torture, etc...
Tonight, on a special episode of Gilmore Girls...
I'd like to announce the upcoming release of my new game "Crushing The Heads of Children."
Wait until you see the abortion minigame! Getting them before birth scores extra points! Woo hoo!
It'll be ready about a year after I decide what language to write it in.
I hope to get Rosie O'Donnel to do the voice of Ragey The Sledgehammer.
where every RPG toting screwloose is a 'freedom fighter'
Don't discount the RPGs. A well cast Firaga spell can do a lot of damage.
...I do sometimes wonder what's in the water over there at Rockstar.
Sunita: Wow. I made a record.
NASA: Congrats!
Sunita: This is a great place to live.
NASA: Sure, why not. Now go to the galley and make dinner already.
They also have, well, different governments.
Bottom line: I don't trust this government. Any nationalized system will not be clean and simple. It will be a clusterfuck of Iraqian proportions.
I'm really not opposed to the idea. I just don't trust our current political system to pull it off.
If that makes me a Troll, well, color me under a bridge somewhere.
Because the ideologically pure will still buy his stuff, and a BIG EVIL movie company gets cut out of some $$$. It's political crack to them. Moore sees the value in releasing a free sample. He has enough cash to never have to work again, so WTF does he care in the end? But, hey, honest skepticism makes me a Troll here on SlashCult, so who cares...
Troll? What the fuck did I say that was so outlandish?
I'm just saying ideas are out there, that's all. Everyone has such an ideological bug up their asses that it's considered heresy to even do that.
*shrug* My honest opinion and question and got modded down as troll, so fuck it. Dissenting opinion is dead on Slashdot.
But what you want isn't what's going to happen. Give the government an inch they take a light year. GET IT????
But why does it have to be state funded? The think tanks and medical professional organizations of this world have publlished a bazillion papers on how to set up a fair and effective free market health care system. A lot of thought has gone into the issue. The reasons none of them get implemented is, as usual, fucking political jackassery.
The choice between what we have now and nationalized health care is a false dichotomy. There's many, many directions to go with this.
I'll also NEVER understand those so willing to put their health care in then hands of our dumbass government. That's just plain alien thinking to me.
He's influential in selling his books and movies. I seriously doubt he has any cares beyond that.
Michael Moore is a businessman catering to a niche market of rabid idelogues. Anyone who thinks he's anything beyond that is a bloody fool.
All his oh so controversial statements are just PR and advertising for his products. The political wonks go out and buy up his product and run home to masturbate endlessly to it.
And to be fair, same deal with Ann Coulter. Anyone who wastes a single moment arguing against her is wasting time.
Actually, it's the continual use of Windows that turns people into cold, bitter rabid wolves. It's like electronic lychanthropy, or something.
"Madness? THIS. IS. AAAAAAPPLE!"
(Cut to shot of Mike Elgan getting kicked down a well)
LILLY: "The thousand domains of the Windows Empire decend upon you! Their popups will blot out the sun!"
JOBS: "Who the fuck are and why you in my parking spot?"
POGUE: "History will remember that one browser stood against a the pile of shit that was Internet Explorer"
Mike Elgan...
Who?
'The insular Apple universe is a relatively gentle place, an Athenian utopia where Apple's occasional missteps are forgiven, all partake of the many blessings of citizenship, and everyone feels like they're part of an Apple-created golden age of lofty ideas and superior design.
Lucy in the skyyyyyyyyyy wiiiith diamonds!
But the Windows world isn't like that. It's a cold, unforgiving place where nothing is sacred, users turn like rabid wolves on any company that makes even the smallest error, and no prisoners are taken.
True. True. Wolves are rarely known to take prisoners.
Especially the Windows browser market. ... While security nerds were ripping Apple for a buggy beta, the UI enthusiasts started going after Apple for the look and feel.
Oh noes! Two nanocultures are not happy with a beta release! One Infinite Loop must be in flames!
The problem? Safari for Windows just isn't Windows enough.'
Well, I'm sure the Safari developers could fix this by breaking as many things as they can for the next release.
Elgan also expects that the Firefox faithful will fight the Safari influx
Or their brain cells will function and realize anything that reduces IE dominance can only be good for the web.
a theory that has been supported by comments from Mozilla executive John Lilly,
Who?
who criticized Steve Jobs' 'blurry view of real world' just after Jobs announced Safari for Windows."
Oh, Jobs! I know him! He's worth, like, THOUSANDS of dollars! I guess if he sharpens up his vision he be worth, like, TENS OF THOUSANDS!
Summary: Zzzzzzzz....
Wouldn't a light spray of Lysol every so often do the trick?
This is why God gave us volume controls on the steering wheel.
I wrote a video poker game in Atari Basic way back when. Maybe we could use that as an initial code base. :)
It was pretty cool, actually. You played the computer in 5 card draw, and the computer AI (such as it was) was pretty good.
The Democrats have been getting steadily more libertarian...
When I stop finding Democrats picking my wallet clean, I'll believe that. I live in California where the Democrat controlled state government seem hell bent on controlling my every waking moment and action. I'm sure legislature involving dreams will follow.
Unless you're in the country illegally. Then they want to hand you the keys to the city for some reason while they kick legal citizens repeatedly in the teeth. Oh, but it's racist to even think that. Oops! That's the thought police knocking at my door!
The real pisser is that we seem to have TWO authoritarian flavored parties now. For the first time in my life I have started considering retirement outside the USA.
Remember jesus went unto the tomb and then rose after three days to eat THE BRAINS OF THE LIVING ARRRRGH
Now *that's* the movie Mel Gibson should have made! :) Fuck, I'd buy that on Blu-Ray!