I don't think we've actually had an election where the candidates have actually addressed issues since maybe the early 80's or slightly before.
I've been voting since Nixon was in office, and I don't remember a single election where the issues that matter to the average man were discussed. Carter won because Ford was appointed by Nixon and had never won a federal election. Reagan won because Carter was the worst President most of us had ever seen. He won again because the Democrats were stupid enough to run carter's VP. Bush won for pretty much the same reason. Clinton won for the same reason Reagan won, although Bush wasn't as bad as Carter.
I never thought I'd see a worse President than Carter, but Shrub proved me wrong. I have no clue how he got re-elected, except for war frenzy.
Obama won for the same reason Reagan and Clinton won (folks finally woke up). He was re-elected because most of us were up in arms about the thieving corporatocracy of Wall Street, and the Republicans were stupid enough to run Mr. WallStreet whose campaign seemed to be "Wall Street and teh rich are all that matter".
Not once did I hear any real issues... hey, Republicans, why doesn't state's rights make it necessary for your party to push for the elimination of federal anti-pot laws, since we now have two states where it's perfectly legal?
why the hell do we allow public schools to waste so much taxpayer money on frivolous BS like this?
Because the monied people who run your school system don't have a clue about budgeting -- rich folks don't need to look at price tags, they just whip out the credit card ans say "wrap it up."
What really REALLY galls me is how the music staff moan and bitch about how they don't have money for decent instruments, then spend tons of money licensing new music when there are hundreds of years worth of excellent public domain classical scores they could have for free.
It's sad, idiots are educating out children. No wonder so many people say "the Jonse's are good people." Incompetence is like quality; it always comes from the top.
Your aliterate person who can't handle homophones looks pretty dumb, too. Look, folks, that kind of aliterate ignorance REALLY affects reading speed and comprehension. And if you actually know better, double shame on you.
You know what I see when I see "you're dog is loose"? I see a high school dropout who has never read an entire book in his whole life. I see a sad, uneducated individual. I see someone I pity. I see someone who is way out of his league at slashdot.
(waiting for an aliterate who thinks "aliterate" is a misspelling to comment...)
The half of the country living on welfare need to be out working all day in orange coveralls.
Half the people you know are on welfare?? I don't think I know a single person on TANF, although I do know quite a few who work for an almost living that get LINK, and a few disabled people on SSI and SSD.
You're sick. You need a good bitchslap from a homeless, mentally disabled combat veteran, asshole. You did know that 1/4 of all homeless men are former combat veterans? No, of course you didn't, Fox and Rush would never spill the beans about that.
Re:Nice! (Score:0, Troll)by Nyder (754090) writes: Friend of a Friend on Tuesday January 08, @06:33PM (#42526253) Homepage
Agreed. Canada has exactly the same problem. I came out of high school, worked 6 years as an apprentice got my license as an electrician and have since been out of work. I don't qualify for welfare but there is gov. subsidized housing down the street with a parking lot full of 2012 pickups and BMWs. Both countries need a serious overhaul to their welfare systems.
Did you by chance go to the subsidized housing and find out who owns which vehicles? They could be visitors, they could of been vehicles that they inherited from a relative, they could be other people who pay to park their cars there.
Instead you make assumptions.
What witless moron modded that insightful comment "troll"? Whoever they are, I invite them to mod me down so they can't mod someone down whose karma may not be the best.
Sheesh... I see more bad mods all the time. Is/. going the way of k5? Please bring back the old style metamoderation! And someone please mod the parent up, it deserves to be seen.
That's a myth believed by people who should know better (like hookers, for example). I was with one woman in a bar and one of her exes walked in and she started giggling, saying the guy had the tiniest pecker she'd ever seen, maybe two inches hard. His feet were so big he looked like he was wearing clown shoes. OTOH I wear a size nine shoe and my tool is well above average (my ex-wife measured it once).
Of course, with most guys, both penis size and shoe size usually correlate with height.
In lieu of payment, he has been given an unlimited supply of hallucinogenic narcotics.
Pedant alert: Narcotics are not hallucinogenic, and hallucinogens are not narcotic. They are completely different classes of drugs, as different as aspirin and Prozak.
Let me guess: you're a cop, or maybe a prosecutor? You're certainly not a chemist.
Why? Relationships get messy real quick...and breakups, etc...
If you get a slap to the face every single morning, when the slapping stops you're going to miss it. Loneliness comes easily when you haven't been alone in years.
For those that don't know one of the first "training videos" you are shown when hired by Walmart is how to get on government assistance, because you simply can't survive on Walmart wages. Why that is just the evil dirty corp screwing the workers...right?
Nope, it's the evil dirty corp and their bought and paid for congress screwing the American taxpayer. When an employed person is on food stamps, it's the employer who benefits. We're probably the only country in the world who gives far more welfare payments to the rich (both directly like BP and the "too big to fail" banks and indirectly like WalMart), thanks to laughable (or cryable) minimum wage laws, tax laws, etc.
Or are you trying to say that stealing is the same as infringing copyrights?
It's true that noncommercial copyright infringement isn't theft, any more than murder is rape, but commercial infringement is actually fraud, which is theft. The money the counterfeiter got was money that should have gone to the producer, money the producer actually owned.
When you DL from TPB, nobody is harmed and most content creators are helped. But if you burn that content to disks and sell them, there is harm. That said, if this software ws over 20 years old it shouldn't even be under copyright (although it stupidly is).
I see you've never been hungry or had to do without, and some hungers are worse than others. Unless the person with the LINK card is an addict, he's going to use it for food.
But if there's still some food in the fridge and you're out of soap and so nasty you can't stand yourself, you're likely to do something like you mentioned. An alcoholic would peobably do that for a forty ounce, a cigarette addict would do it for smokes. It doesn't just look logical, it IS logical. Not everything is valued in dollars. Those who have little have little to lose.
Before America went all big-government-social-program crazy, our poor and our drunks were left to local charities.
And those charities didn't even come close to filling the need; most rich people are greedy, stingy bastards or they wouldn't be rich. Fortunately we've evolved past that callous attitude to the poor... at least, most of us have.
Ahhh, they're used to it in California. Except the species are different is all.
But if you want gut wrenching stench, visit Decatur, IL, home of ADM (motto:"breadbasket to the world"). The whole city smells like a pile of rotting pig carcasses dumped on a pile of shit, covered with sugar and set on fire.
Look, welfare needs reform, no one (sane) doubts that
Er, you're a little behind the times; reform happened already. PWORA was passed in 1996, limiting recipients to two years of cash benefits with a five year lifetime limit. ADFC (Aid to Families with Dependant Children) was abolished and replaced with TANF (Transitional Assistance to Needy Families). AFDC was an entitlement, TANF is not. To get your limited time welfare check you must prove you're looking for work or going to school.
Someone who gets a $650 a month social security disability payment only gets about $70 per month of LINK. Can you live eating only $16.50 per week's worth of groceries?
Yes, ending it would be even more inhumane than we treat our poor now. No other developed country is as pitiless. Strange how the "athiest Europeans" treat their poor far better than the "Christian" Americans.
The only reforms needed are getting rid of welfare for the RICH. It really, REALLY pisses me off that BP gets welfare while there are hungry homeless people in every city.
I don't think I would want the U.S. busting small-time drug dealers in random third countries either.
If you get caught with $100,000 worth of cocaine you're going to prison for a LONG time. If you think $100k is "small time" you must work on Wall Street.
The summary is incorrect as well. EBT isn't a credit card, it's a debit card. EBT stands for "electronic benefits transfer". Since this is LINK it isn't even a real debit card, since all you can spend it on is groceries (no soap, no beer, no cigarettes, no Big Macs).
And speaking of Big Macs, that guy cooking that Big Mac is on LINK. In the US we make the poor work, quite unlike most of Europe. LINK doesn't really benefit its recipients, it benefits its recipient's employers like fast food joints (not just the much maligned McDonalds), Wal Mart, and in fact almost everyone you hand a credit card to is recieving LINK.
In the US, we don't subsidize the poor, we subsidize their employers. Welfare in the US is only for the rich.
Oh, man... insightful? A non-nerd gets an "insightful" for saying he's not bright enought to understand the summary?
Can someone point me to a REAL nerd site where the above aliterate Anonymous Jock who doesn't give two shits about learning doesn't go?
To the incredibly ignorant AC and the equally ignorant moderator (who shouldn't even be at slashdot, let alone moderating), GI stands for gastrointestinal. Since that's such a big word for an ignorant, uneducated, unlearned jock like yourself, it means your digestive system. GI studies are studies your doctor does on your digestive system.
No, I am not a physician, but unlike the anonymous ignorant aliterate above, I read. I can't comprehend anyone who's not a high school dropout not understanding the summary.
WE'RE NERDS. We understand most scientific and medical terms. When you say "LEO" we don't think "cop" we think "low Earth orbit." If you don't understand scientific or medical terminology, maybe you should just stay away from slashdot? Or maybe stop being an aliterate and read something not on the internet? To paraphrase Twain, an aliterate has no advantage over an illiterate.
Yeah, you though that was a misspelling, didn't you? Go read a fucking book!
Conservatives, myself included, tend to think that while charity is good, Government mandated charity is an incredibly bad idea, both counterproductive and inefficient.
How are food stamps more inefficient than soup kitchens? How can you think that medicaid is less efficient than charity? Sorry, I just don't understand how you could come to those conclusions, what's the reasoning behind them?
Much better are local / private charities, which tend to have
Couldn't think of what they have that's better than gov charities?
We still participate in the political process about what degree of taxation is appropriate.
Federal taxes are lower than they've been in my lifetime, and I'm 60. Bitching aboutr taxes when they're lower than you've ever seen them is a bit... sorry, I can't think of a polite term.
If thats what you think happened in the NT, you might have missed the message.
The antibiotic does the healing, the doctor gets the credit. In the NT, God did the healing, Jesus got the credit. It's full of blind, deaf, and lame people being cured. The message is "with God, all things are possible." But note that Jesus never charged anyone a penny.
Letting someone suffer needlessly is antithetical to what Jesus taught. "I was hungry and you fed me, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was naked and you clothed me" he said. They replied "When did we do that?" He answered, "whenever you do it for anyone, you do it for me." How can anyone who considers himself a Christian complain about his tax money going to relieve suffering? Especially when you conservatives seem to have no problem spending trillions on weapons and war? Does it not trouble you that the US lives by the sword?
The WBC says that, however the conservatives I know tend not to say hateful things like that. At the end of the day I believe (and the bible very clearly teaches) that certain sexual behavior is appropriate, and that everything else is verboten.
The WBC aren't the only ones (and I hear they're not even really Christians, but rather lawyers in a single family to sue the people who respond to their attacks). I have a lesbian friend who once told me she wished her lesbianism could be cured because she didn't want to go to hell. I responded that it was as much a sin for me to have sex with a woman as it was for her to, since I'm not married. Gay's sins are no worse than yours or mine. But the worst part is the homophobics who get caught in adultery. Homosexuality wasn't on Moses' tablets, but adultery was. "Judge not, lest ye be judged yourself."
"disapproving of someone's behavior" does not constitute bigotry.
No, it doesn't. "Hate the sin, love the sinner." But it's not just the behavior that conservatives hate, it's the gays themselves.
if I do not approve of a person's sexual behavior Im hateful and unchristian.
No, that's not being hateful or unChristian, but not approving of a person because he's simply attracted to the wrong sex, which is no fault of his own, even when that person doesn't act on those impulses, is being unChristian. Again, even if you're an ordained preacher who loves God with all your heart and do your very best to live as he wants you to, you're still a sinner. The homosexual can judge you for your sins just as easily as you can judge him for his stomach-churning behavior, but again, "judge not, lest ye be judged yourself".
There are no athiests in foxholes, and there are no Christians on Wall Street. You cannot serve both God and mammon, and that is exactly what conservatives try to do.
Power does not get your penis erect....sexual thoughts do, and quite readily.
But what arouses you doesn't necessarily arouse another guy. I knew one guy that was turned on by woman's feet. Some men are turned on by other men. Some men are turned on by the helplessness of a victim.
We, the working people, don't benefit from food stamps, free housing, free utilities
Actually, we do. A cold, hungry person is a lot more likely to break into your house than someone who is warm and fed. As someone who has been burglarized more than once (and once caught a guy in the act of raiding my fridge!) I don't mind paying taxes to help the poor at all. You're going to pay one way or another.
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I don't think we've actually had an election where the candidates have actually addressed issues since maybe the early 80's or slightly before.
I've been voting since Nixon was in office, and I don't remember a single election where the issues that matter to the average man were discussed. Carter won because Ford was appointed by Nixon and had never won a federal election. Reagan won because Carter was the worst President most of us had ever seen. He won again because the Democrats were stupid enough to run carter's VP. Bush won for pretty much the same reason. Clinton won for the same reason Reagan won, although Bush wasn't as bad as Carter.
I never thought I'd see a worse President than Carter, but Shrub proved me wrong. I have no clue how he got re-elected, except for war frenzy.
Obama won for the same reason Reagan and Clinton won (folks finally woke up). He was re-elected because most of us were up in arms about the thieving corporatocracy of Wall Street, and the Republicans were stupid enough to run Mr. WallStreet whose campaign seemed to be "Wall Street and teh rich are all that matter".
Not once did I hear any real issues... hey, Republicans, why doesn't state's rights make it necessary for your party to push for the elimination of federal anti-pot laws, since we now have two states where it's perfectly legal?
why the hell do we allow public schools to waste so much taxpayer money on frivolous BS like this?
Because the monied people who run your school system don't have a clue about budgeting -- rich folks don't need to look at price tags, they just whip out the credit card ans say "wrap it up."
What really REALLY galls me is how the music staff moan and bitch about how they don't have money for decent instruments, then spend tons of money licensing new music when there are hundreds of years worth of excellent public domain classical scores they could have for free.
It's sad, idiots are educating out children. No wonder so many people say "the Jonse's are good people." Incompetence is like quality; it always comes from the top.
Online dating hasn't been around long enough to affect divorce rates.
Errr, except that it was a woman...
woman
wo' man
womb man
A woman is a man with a womb.
Also, it makes shopping boring
Unless you're female or gay, shopping is ALWAYS boring.
You're smart person is going to look pretty dumb
Your aliterate person who can't handle homophones looks pretty dumb, too. Look, folks, that kind of aliterate ignorance REALLY affects reading speed and comprehension. And if you actually know better, double shame on you.
You know what I see when I see "you're dog is loose"? I see a high school dropout who has never read an entire book in his whole life. I see a sad, uneducated individual. I see someone I pity. I see someone who is way out of his league at slashdot.
(waiting for an aliterate who thinks "aliterate" is a misspelling to comment...)
The half of the country living on welfare need to be out working all day in orange coveralls.
Half the people you know are on welfare?? I don't think I know a single person on TANF, although I do know quite a few who work for an almost living that get LINK, and a few disabled people on SSI and SSD.
You're sick. You need a good bitchslap from a homeless, mentally disabled combat veteran, asshole. You did know that 1/4 of all homeless men are former combat veterans? No, of course you didn't, Fox and Rush would never spill the beans about that.
Idiot. Fucking heartles idiot, at that.
but this is slashdot - information wants to be FREE*
* unless it's a GPL violation, in which case they flay you alive.
GPL licensed works ARE free; violations take free information and enslave it. Slave traders NEED to be flayed alive!
What witless moron modded that insightful comment "troll"? Whoever they are, I invite them to mod me down so they can't mod someone down whose karma may not be the best.
Sheesh... I see more bad mods all the time. Is /. going the way of k5? Please bring back the old style metamoderation! And someone please mod the parent up, it deserves to be seen.
you know what they say about guys with big feet!!
That's a myth believed by people who should know better (like hookers, for example). I was with one woman in a bar and one of her exes walked in and she started giggling, saying the guy had the tiniest pecker she'd ever seen, maybe two inches hard. His feet were so big he looked like he was wearing clown shoes. OTOH I wear a size nine shoe and my tool is well above average (my ex-wife measured it once).
Of course, with most guys, both penis size and shoe size usually correlate with height.
In lieu of payment, he has been given an unlimited supply of hallucinogenic narcotics.
Pedant alert: Narcotics are not hallucinogenic, and hallucinogens are not narcotic. They are completely different classes of drugs, as different as aspirin and Prozak.
Let me guess: you're a cop, or maybe a prosecutor? You're certainly not a chemist.
Why? Relationships get messy real quick...and breakups, etc...
If you get a slap to the face every single morning, when the slapping stops you're going to miss it. Loneliness comes easily when you haven't been alone in years.
Logic and reason have nothing to do with it.
For those that don't know one of the first "training videos" you are shown when hired by Walmart is how to get on government assistance, because you simply can't survive on Walmart wages. Why that is just the evil dirty corp screwing the workers...right?
Nope, it's the evil dirty corp and their bought and paid for congress screwing the American taxpayer. When an employed person is on food stamps, it's the employer who benefits. We're probably the only country in the world who gives far more welfare payments to the rich (both directly like BP and the "too big to fail" banks and indirectly like WalMart), thanks to laughable (or cryable) minimum wage laws, tax laws, etc.
Or are you trying to say that stealing is the same as infringing copyrights?
It's true that noncommercial copyright infringement isn't theft, any more than murder is rape, but commercial infringement is actually fraud, which is theft. The money the counterfeiter got was money that should have gone to the producer, money the producer actually owned.
When you DL from TPB, nobody is harmed and most content creators are helped. But if you burn that content to disks and sell them, there is harm.
That said, if this software ws over 20 years old it shouldn't even be under copyright (although it stupidly is).
Actually, that is the drawback of spell checkers. Dew knot truss yore spill checker!
I see you've never been hungry or had to do without, and some hungers are worse than others. Unless the person with the LINK card is an addict, he's going to use it for food.
But if there's still some food in the fridge and you're out of soap and so nasty you can't stand yourself, you're likely to do something like you mentioned. An alcoholic would peobably do that for a forty ounce, a cigarette addict would do it for smokes. It doesn't just look logical, it IS logical. Not everything is valued in dollars. Those who have little have little to lose.
Before America went all big-government-social-program crazy, our poor and our drunks were left to local charities.
And those charities didn't even come close to filling the need; most rich people are greedy, stingy bastards or they wouldn't be rich. Fortunately we've evolved past that callous attitude to the poor... at least, most of us have.
Ahhh, they're used to it in California. Except the species are different is all.
But if you want gut wrenching stench, visit Decatur, IL, home of ADM (motto:"breadbasket to the world"). The whole city smells like a pile of rotting pig carcasses dumped on a pile of shit, covered with sugar and set on fire.
Someone should open a weight loss clinic there.
Look, welfare needs reform, no one (sane) doubts that
Er, you're a little behind the times; reform happened already. PWORA was passed in 1996, limiting recipients to two years of cash benefits with a five year lifetime limit. ADFC (Aid to Families with Dependant Children) was abolished and replaced with TANF (Transitional Assistance to Needy Families). AFDC was an entitlement, TANF is not. To get your limited time welfare check you must prove you're looking for work or going to school.
Someone who gets a $650 a month social security disability payment only gets about $70 per month of LINK. Can you live eating only $16.50 per week's worth of groceries?
Yes, ending it would be even more inhumane than we treat our poor now. No other developed country is as pitiless. Strange how the "athiest Europeans" treat their poor far better than the "Christian" Americans.
The only reforms needed are getting rid of welfare for the RICH. It really, REALLY pisses me off that BP gets welfare while there are hungry homeless people in every city.
I don't think I would want the U.S. busting small-time drug dealers in random third countries either.
If you get caught with $100,000 worth of cocaine you're going to prison for a LONG time. If you think $100k is "small time" you must work on Wall Street.
The summary is incorrect as well. EBT isn't a credit card, it's a debit card. EBT stands for "electronic benefits transfer". Since this is LINK it isn't even a real debit card, since all you can spend it on is groceries (no soap, no beer, no cigarettes, no Big Macs).
And speaking of Big Macs, that guy cooking that Big Mac is on LINK. In the US we make the poor work, quite unlike most of Europe. LINK doesn't really benefit its recipients, it benefits its recipient's employers like fast food joints (not just the much maligned McDonalds), Wal Mart, and in fact almost everyone you hand a credit card to is recieving LINK.
In the US, we don't subsidize the poor, we subsidize their employers. Welfare in the US is only for the rich.
Oh, man... insightful? A non-nerd gets an "insightful" for saying he's not bright enought to understand the summary?
Can someone point me to a REAL nerd site where the above aliterate Anonymous Jock who doesn't give two shits about learning doesn't go?
To the incredibly ignorant AC and the equally ignorant moderator (who shouldn't even be at slashdot, let alone moderating), GI stands for gastrointestinal. Since that's such a big word for an ignorant, uneducated, unlearned jock like yourself, it means your digestive system. GI studies are studies your doctor does on your digestive system.
No, I am not a physician, but unlike the anonymous ignorant aliterate above, I read. I can't comprehend anyone who's not a high school dropout not understanding the summary.
WE'RE NERDS. We understand most scientific and medical terms. When you say "LEO" we don't think "cop" we think "low Earth orbit." If you don't understand scientific or medical terminology, maybe you should just stay away from slashdot? Or maybe stop being an aliterate and read something not on the internet? To paraphrase Twain, an aliterate has no advantage over an illiterate.
Yeah, you though that was a misspelling, didn't you? Go read a fucking book!
Conservatives, myself included, tend to think that while charity is good, Government mandated charity is an incredibly bad idea, both counterproductive and inefficient.
How are food stamps more inefficient than soup kitchens? How can you think that medicaid is less efficient than charity? Sorry, I just don't understand how you could come to those conclusions, what's the reasoning behind them?
Much better are local / private charities, which tend to have
Couldn't think of what they have that's better than gov charities?
We still participate in the political process about what degree of taxation is appropriate.
Federal taxes are lower than they've been in my lifetime, and I'm 60. Bitching aboutr taxes when they're lower than you've ever seen them is a bit... sorry, I can't think of a polite term.
If thats what you think happened in the NT, you might have missed the message.
The antibiotic does the healing, the doctor gets the credit. In the NT, God did the healing, Jesus got the credit. It's full of blind, deaf, and lame people being cured. The message is "with God, all things are possible." But note that Jesus never charged anyone a penny.
Letting someone suffer needlessly is antithetical to what Jesus taught. "I was hungry and you fed me, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was naked and you clothed me" he said. They replied "When did we do that?" He answered, "whenever you do it for anyone, you do it for me." How can anyone who considers himself a Christian complain about his tax money going to relieve suffering? Especially when you conservatives seem to have no problem spending trillions on weapons and war? Does it not trouble you that the US lives by the sword?
The WBC says that, however the conservatives I know tend not to say hateful things like that. At the end of the day I believe (and the bible very clearly teaches) that certain sexual behavior is appropriate, and that everything else is verboten.
The WBC aren't the only ones (and I hear they're not even really Christians, but rather lawyers in a single family to sue the people who respond to their attacks). I have a lesbian friend who once told me she wished her lesbianism could be cured because she didn't want to go to hell. I responded that it was as much a sin for me to have sex with a woman as it was for her to, since I'm not married. Gay's sins are no worse than yours or mine. But the worst part is the homophobics who get caught in adultery. Homosexuality wasn't on Moses' tablets, but adultery was. "Judge not, lest ye be judged yourself."
"disapproving of someone's behavior" does not constitute bigotry.
No, it doesn't. "Hate the sin, love the sinner." But it's not just the behavior that conservatives hate, it's the gays themselves.
if I do not approve of a person's sexual behavior Im hateful and unchristian.
No, that's not being hateful or unChristian, but not approving of a person because he's simply attracted to the wrong sex, which is no fault of his own, even when that person doesn't act on those impulses, is being unChristian. Again, even if you're an ordained preacher who loves God with all your heart and do your very best to live as he wants you to, you're still a sinner. The homosexual can judge you for your sins just as easily as you can judge him for his stomach-churning behavior, but again, "judge not, lest ye be judged yourself".
There are no athiests in foxholes, and there are no Christians on Wall Street. You cannot serve both God and mammon, and that is exactly what conservatives try to do.
Power does not get your penis erect....sexual thoughts do, and quite readily.
But what arouses you doesn't necessarily arouse another guy. I knew one guy that was turned on by woman's feet. Some men are turned on by other men. Some men are turned on by the helplessness of a victim.
Rapists are sick fuckers.
We, the working people, don't benefit from food stamps, free housing, free utilities
Actually, we do. A cold, hungry person is a lot more likely to break into your house than someone who is warm and fed. As someone who has been burglarized more than once (and once caught a guy in the act of raiding my fridge!) I don't mind paying taxes to help the poor at all. You're going to pay one way or another.
most adults consider that monsters are not real :-)
You never heard of John Wayne Gacey? Adam Lanza? James Holmes? Charlie Manson? All of them make Dracula and Frankenstein look like girl scouts.