I'm a liberal that LOVES Megadeth.
Yea, I'm one of those people who doesn't let politics get in the way of a good riff and/or lyric...
I don't care if quite a bit of what comes out of Mustaines mouth is nonsense.
The guy is a serious KING of METAL.
You have to understand his target market. The majority of Americans don't know who the founding fathers were and don't care.
They can't find Viet Nam on a world map let alone Iraq. They don't know what the three brances of the federal government are...
But Goddamned if they don't know about Instagramming, lolcats, Jersey Shore, Justin Bieber, endless shrimp Thursdays at Red Lobster and buying t-shirts at Wal-Mart and wearing them until they are dirty and buying another pack instead of washing them.
This is the America he is talking to, not you or I.
We are living in the modern Roman Empire.
Bread and Circuses and all that.
No one in the "nice weather" parts of Cali is from there. No one...
They are from China, India, Mexico, Russia, the UK, and of course the rest of the U.S.
If you want to find Californians that were born and raised there go inland... Modesto, Bakersfield, Redding.
I always get a kick out of people who live in Oregon, Washington, et al who bitch about people from Cali. More likely than not, they only lived for for ten or less years and are originally from Poughkeepsie, Hyderabad, Tulsa or Shenzen.
I'm a Cali native who doesn't live there anymore, but visits often. The only place/attitude I've experienced with a higher snark/sneer factor than the Bay Area is, yep, you guessed, Seattle.
Don't waste your time on getting numbers from this guy.
Anyone that would make those claims obviously has a political agenda and isn't interested in history.
I have an elderly neighbor of Japanese descent, who was actually born and raised in the US. We got talking one day and I realized he was around during the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. I casually tried to get him to talk about it... He admitted he was in the camps but wouldn't elaborate further...
The real questions is, how long will it be until it happens again in the US?
FW Tau is perhaps the most interesting of the three systems. The star is actually a binary, two stars orbiting each other. Both stars are cool red dwarfs, about a quarter of the mass of the Sun each, orbiting about 1.6 billion kilometers (one billion miles) apart, roughly the distance of Saturn to the Sun. The stars are a bit less than two million years old, and are 470 light years from Earth.
The interesting thing to me is how little(except for places like/., etc;) extrapolation is done regarding our erosion of privacy and rights.
No one seems to think we are on a slippery slope here.
Yes, I know it's BEYOND trite and redundant to quote or reference Orwells' 1984, but hey, a guy having to stand in the corner of his apartment to stay out of view of telescreens and microphones is essentially where we are headed.
The NSA is merely a tool for whoever can manipulate their way into controlling how it is used.
It is only a matter of time until a president or other powerful corporate interest uses the NSA to frame what they consider internal, American threats.
The patriots at the NSA wouldn't think twice about using their omniscience to discredit or even bring the threat of physical violence to any American citizen if their overlords commanded them to.
I'm sure they have some interesting spreadsheets/presentations detailing the "current bad guys" porn preferences:
"Wow, this imam in Hamburg is really into Shaved Headed Albino Milf Lesbians with "Eat at Joes" tattoos"
Yes, except I'm not going to use a bunch of fabric bags that have to buy myself, remember to bring to the store, and that have to be washed after every visit to the store.
I could easily flame you on this but I will remain civil in tone...
I have been using "paid for" / "permanent" grocery bags, both cloth and plastic for the last 6 years or so. Sure, every once in a while I don't take them, but I've made a habit of keeping them on my fridge, so when I leave to go shopping I just grab them and all is good, no worries.
Wash them...? Right. I've used the same bags for years and never washed them. I'm weird, I wash my food before I cook or eat it...
If you haven't seen this film, see it now.
It will blow your mind, not only because Pacino does one of his best performances of his career, but also because of the subject matter.
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Mod Points!
Right.
They're called the Gapple Store.
not (as I feared) to start providing some kind of cloud-based service to other corporations.
Ahhh, but that is where this is heading.
“Amazon is very secretive, when they start talking about something you better pay attention,”
A spokeswoman for Amazon declined to comment.
I'm a liberal that LOVES Megadeth.
Yea, I'm one of those people who doesn't let politics get in the way of a good riff and/or lyric...
I don't care if quite a bit of what comes out of Mustaines mouth is nonsense.
The guy is a serious KING of METAL.
Yes, 1988 was a banner year for such insights:
Metallica - "And Justice for All"
Queensryche - "Operation Mindcrime"
How does it feel to state the obvious?
You have to understand his target market. The majority of Americans don't know who the founding fathers were and don't care.
They can't find Viet Nam on a world map let alone Iraq. They don't know what the three brances of the federal government are...
But Goddamned if they don't know about Instagramming, lolcats, Jersey Shore, Justin Bieber, endless shrimp Thursdays at Red Lobster and buying t-shirts at Wal-Mart and wearing them until they are dirty and buying another pack instead of washing them.
This is the America he is talking to, not you or I.
We are living in the modern Roman Empire.
Bread and Circuses and all that.
Then I'm not going to IKEA ever again... Ever.
Well, on second thought those meatballs are pretty good.
And their selection of outdoor rugs is fabulous, and I really need a new one for my deck...
Dammit! You got me!
Cockroach in the concrete
Courthouse tan and beady eyes
A slouch with fallen arches
Purging truths into great lies
The little man with a big eraser
Changing history
Procedures that he's programmed to
And all he hears and sees
Altering the facts and figures
Events and every issue
Make a person disappear
No one will ever miss you
Dave Mustaine, 1988
Nice tries finish last.
No one in the "nice weather" parts of Cali is from there. No one...
They are from China, India, Mexico, Russia, the UK, and of course the rest of the U.S.
If you want to find Californians that were born and raised there go inland... Modesto, Bakersfield, Redding.
I always get a kick out of people who live in Oregon, Washington, et al who bitch about people from Cali. More likely than not, they only lived for for ten or less years and are originally from Poughkeepsie, Hyderabad, Tulsa or Shenzen.
I'm a Cali native who doesn't live there anymore, but visits often. The only place/attitude I've experienced with a higher snark/sneer factor than the Bay Area is, yep, you guessed, Seattle.
Best comment yet.
Don't waste your time on getting numbers from this guy.
Anyone that would make those claims obviously has a political agenda and isn't interested in history.
I have an elderly neighbor of Japanese descent, who was actually born and raised in the US. We got talking one day and I realized he was around during the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. I casually tried to get him to talk about it... He admitted he was in the camps but wouldn't elaborate further...
The real questions is, how long will it be until it happens again in the US?
Just the tip.
I beg your pardon...?
Great analogy.
FW Tau is perhaps the most interesting of the three systems. The star is actually a binary, two stars orbiting each other. Both stars are cool red dwarfs, about a quarter of the mass of the Sun each, orbiting about 1.6 billion kilometers (one billion miles) apart, roughly the distance of Saturn to the Sun. The stars are a bit less than two million years old, and are 470 light years from Earth.
Two Million? Really?
The interesting thing to me is how little(except for places like /., etc;) extrapolation is done regarding our erosion of privacy and rights.
No one seems to think we are on a slippery slope here.
Yes, I know it's BEYOND trite and redundant to quote or reference Orwells' 1984, but hey, a guy having to stand in the corner of his apartment to stay out of view of telescreens and microphones is essentially where we are headed.
We are almost there now.
Bingo.
The NSA is merely a tool for whoever can manipulate their way into controlling how it is used.
It is only a matter of time until a president or other powerful corporate interest uses the NSA to frame what they consider internal, American threats .
The patriots at the NSA wouldn't think twice about using their omniscience to discredit or even bring the threat of physical violence to any American citizen if their overlords commanded them to.
Right.
I'm sure they have some interesting spreadsheets/presentations detailing the "current bad guys" porn preferences:
"Wow, this imam in Hamburg is really into Shaved Headed Albino Milf Lesbians with "Eat at Joes" tattoos"
Yes, except I'm not going to use a bunch of fabric bags that have to buy myself, remember to bring to the store, and that have to be washed after every visit to the store.
I could easily flame you on this but I will remain civil in tone...
I have been using "paid for" / "permanent" grocery bags, both cloth and plastic for the last 6 years or so. Sure, every once in a while I don't take them, but I've made a habit of keeping them on my fridge, so when I leave to go shopping I just grab them and all is good, no worries.
Wash them...? Right. I've used the same bags for years and never washed them. I'm weird, I wash my food before I cook or eat it...
This ain't rocket science.
"There's no such thing [as dying with dignity]!
Hunter S. Thompson, Edward Abbey and Reginald D. Porch would beg to differ.
If you haven't seen this film, see it now.
It will blow your mind, not only because Pacino does one of his best performances of his career, but also because of the subject matter.