The US built a house. It was called the internet. We invited everyone over to enjoy our house. Stay as long as you like. Hell, take a dip in the pool. Set up shop in the garage.
Now, the houseguests are bitching because they don't own the house. Fuck you houseguest. Its our house, its always been our house. If you are so inconvenienced, build your own house, but don't cry to me when its a crappier, less desireable house.
Law 1: Mass Transit is *always* good. Law 2: Secular Progressive local government is *always* good.
Therefore,
If I have a secular progressive government, and I say I want to build mass transit, ANY level of waste, fraud, and abuse is tolerable. The results don't actually matter! I can keep wasting money and go get more every year, because I say the right keywords in my speeches.
Your theory about mass transit is nice... but the reality of a city spending planning to spend $5 billion on shuttling a few hundred people a few miles is ludacris.
Don't let that stop you from dreaming... just dream with your own damn money you sick freak.
You are like kooksville levels of liberal here dude...
You can work any amount of hours you want in America! No law can stop you from working 5, 10, 20, 40, 60, or 80. However much money you want to make... its a competition.
We aren't such pussies that we need the government to regulate every facet of our lives, like a bunch of feeble peasants. In America, you count on yourself. And this produces inherently more powerful people.
You should consider emmigrating to France... I'm sure it would be an excellent career move.
Also, you should warn all of these misguided immigrants to the USA that they are going to a worse country! Maybe some of them will wake up and realize that risking their life to come to America is pointless when France is available!
We are battling a generation of people in our own country who feel they are entitled to everything. And even as we give more than we have ever given before in entitlements, it only increases the demand.
You give some unemployed guy an extra 12 weeks of unemployment benefits and a $2000 debit card... it sounds very compassionate and progressive. But then, they end up being even less self-sufficient, and all their friends and the other people see the handouts and it attracts the wolves, like a limping gazelle.
Wrong... the 35 hour work week is derided because it represents government meddling in business affairs.
Its not that 35 hours is so unreasonable, its that it is symbolic of the rigid nature of the French people and their unwillingness to confront change and evolutionary forces.
Nope... EUROSTAT, the statistics arm of the EU publishes comparisons of its own economies unemployment rates to the US. Why would EUROSTAT intentionally make Europe look inferior?
The mayor will likely have 1,000 plus angry anti-American puppets ready to channel into whatever political endeavor he desires. Its rather brilliant, if not classic, socialist move. Class warfare is apparently still viable in France!
Strawman! Nice touch... actually, all of the families in the astro dome are getting kids enrolled in school and having aid applications. You think they are just sleeping and listening to the radio? No. Look at Houston schools filling up as we speak. This is exclusively from the astrodome and nobody there is "confused" about how to do that.
I think you need to actually check with reality. Every single person in that dome is getting aid without the help of that crappy radio station. You have not demonstrated otherwise...
And excuse me. If your house catches on fire, if you think George Bush is going to swing down on air force 1 and throw a rope to you, you are freaking nuts.
Fact is, military is the only thing that saved most of these people after their city did not evactuate them and their state government collapsed.
Your obsession with Bush is like that of a stalker.
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The US built a house. It was called the internet. We invited everyone over to enjoy our house. Stay as long as you like. Hell, take a dip in the pool. Set up shop in the garage.
Now, the houseguests are bitching because they don't own the house. Fuck you houseguest. Its our house, its always been our house. If you are so inconvenienced, build your own house, but don't cry to me when its a crappier, less desireable house.
Sounds like a classic case of the mods projecting what they want to believe upon the actual story...
I guess this will be a boon to all the Freeware makers who export to Peru though. SWEET!
Law 1: Mass Transit is *always* good.
Law 2: Secular Progressive local government is *always* good.
Therefore,
If I have a secular progressive government, and I say I want to build mass transit, ANY level of waste, fraud, and abuse is tolerable. The results don't actually matter! I can keep wasting money and go get more every year, because I say the right keywords in my speeches.
"We need SOCIAL JUSTICE"
"We need to fight THE OIL MONOPOLY"
Now, open your wallets again, you stupid serfs!!
Your theory about mass transit is nice... but the reality of a city spending planning to spend $5 billion on shuttling a few hundred people a few miles is ludacris.
Don't let that stop you from dreaming... just dream with your own damn money you sick freak.
And Michael Sims is still on "vacation"
Bwahahahaha!!
This is a new level of idiocy for even slashdot.
Over $1 Billion was spent without laying a single track, and you think this was cancelled because of oil companies?
Its government fraud you sycophantic worm.
The monorail would never have even held more than 500 passengers, and traveled less than 10 miles so its transportation value was never an issue.
I don't think corporations really complained about a shortage of high-tech workers.
It was *cheap* high-tech workers that they said were in short supply...
I'm getting quite annoyed at GMAIL saying "Ooops... pls try again"...
Of course, hotmail is horrible, but Yahoo has always at least been consistant in this area.
I've never had Yahoo mail time out or not respond.
You are like kooksville levels of liberal here dude...
You can work any amount of hours you want in America! No law can stop you from working 5, 10, 20, 40, 60, or 80. However much money you want to make... its a competition.
We aren't such pussies that we need the government to regulate every facet of our lives, like a bunch of feeble peasants. In America, you count on yourself. And this produces inherently more powerful people.
You piece of shit.
And people pay to subscribe to this shit! ROFL...
Somehow I doubt that if I drew some of my favorite comparisons between terrorists and secular progressives I would get +5 insightful...
But what the hell:
-Both hate Bush
-Both hate Christians
-Both are saved by the ACLU
You should consider emmigrating to France... I'm sure it would be an excellent career move.
Also, you should warn all of these misguided immigrants to the USA that they are going to a worse country! Maybe some of them will wake up and realize that risking their life to come to America is pointless when France is available!
You speak power to truth brother!
We are battling a generation of people in our own country who feel they are entitled to everything. And even as we give more than we have ever given before in entitlements, it only increases the demand.
You give some unemployed guy an extra 12 weeks of unemployment benefits and a $2000 debit card... it sounds very compassionate and progressive. But then, they end up being even less self-sufficient, and all their friends and the other people see the handouts and it attracts the wolves, like a limping gazelle.
Wrong... the 35 hour work week is derided because it represents government meddling in business affairs.
Its not that 35 hours is so unreasonable, its that it is symbolic of the rigid nature of the French people and their unwillingness to confront change and evolutionary forces.
Nope... EUROSTAT, the statistics arm of the EU publishes comparisons of its own economies unemployment rates to the US. Why would EUROSTAT intentionally make Europe look inferior?
G E/PGP_PRD_CAT_PREREL/PGE_CAT_PREREL_YEAR_2005/PGE_ CAT_PREREL_YEAR_2005_MONTH_06/3-01062005-EN-AP.PDF
See for yourself at EUROSTAT:
http://epp.eurostat.cec.eu.int/pls/portal/docs/PA
Oh yeah, that renowned "French muscle" ROFL!!!
France jobs are higher paying than US jobs? That's a good one! I'm sure Cubans will start swimming there immediately upon reading your post.
The mayor will likely have 1,000 plus angry anti-American puppets ready to channel into whatever political endeavor he desires. Its rather brilliant, if not classic, socialist move. Class warfare is apparently still viable in France!
No, no... for France? This is *normal*...
Since they only work 35 hours a week, they are easy targets. LOL...
I think its respectable for a country to punish people for seditious behavior, if done appropriately.
They were not controlling the press. They were keeping some kooks from running a science experiment inside the astro dome.
Just one problem with that: FEMA wasn't censoring the press. They were preventing some whack-jobs from running a science experiment in the astrodome.
Mission accomplished!
nice anger! do you scream at a picture of Bush every night in your basement! ROFL!!!
I bet your mom doesn't like that...
Go back to your flea infested couch, you sick liberal. You people will tolerate anything. Child molester? You want to rehabilitate them.
But soon we'll have you all in orange jump suits.
Strawman! Nice touch... actually, all of the families in the astro dome are getting kids enrolled in school and having aid applications. You think they are just sleeping and listening to the radio? No. Look at Houston schools filling up as we speak. This is exclusively from the astrodome and nobody there is "confused" about how to do that.
I think you need to actually check with reality. Every single person in that dome is getting aid without the help of that crappy radio station. You have not demonstrated otherwise...
And excuse me. If your house catches on fire, if you think George Bush is going to swing down on air force 1 and throw a rope to you, you are freaking nuts.
Fact is, military is the only thing that saved most of these people after their city did not evactuate them and their state government collapsed.
Your obsession with Bush is like that of a stalker.
Of course there is, FEMA has a playbook for everything up to and including nuclear war.
And yes, you do have to be elected to do this... sorry, its called "rule of law".
Your vision of anarchists coming together randomly to restore structure and order is confusing at best.