then you know what I do? I unplug the fscker, cancel my service [not that I'd deal with comcast in the first place] and go post on slashdot or something. it really isn't that important to watch TV
I know this is going to come as a shock to you non-geezers, but you can watch TV without cable! There's satellite TV (several providers IINM) and good old trusty rabbit ears (my rabbit ears are amplified and deliver a very good picture) or roof antenna.
When I was a kid we only had three channels, and that was in the St Louis Metro area! I'm in dinky little Springfield IL now, and I can pick up nine channels.
Yeah, I could get dozens of channels with cable but so what? When I had cable I didn't watch very many anyway. If there's a program on cable I want to watch I'll go to a bar (I'm usually in one anyway). I used to like The Discovery Channel before they started sucking. Instead of "The Andromeda Galaxy: little known secrets" now there's "Painting race cars: little known secrets". They have ESPN on and there's... championship POKER??? Pool? WTF is next, twiddly winks?
At least when I was a kid there was Ernie Kovacs and Red Skelton. You young whippersnappers don't know what you're missing.
If they impliment this I'm going to have to make another article alomg the lines of Good Riddance to Bad Tech about bad tech we SHOULD get rid of... maybe add it to Dog-Slow Technologies and rename the sucker.
If you cover up the lens, the cable box goes "Your papers, please." Then you'll have to type your SSN or passport number in with the remote before you can watch TV.
Shamelessle and blatantly stolen from A Child's Garden of Grass: A Pre-Legalization Comedy (1971)
"Your paperss, pleass!" "Uh, but I only got a pipe, man." "Zen you'll haff to come vith ME!"
But seriously (boo! he's serious!), is there ANY evil the corporations won't stoop to? Time to take all those lame stale lawyer jokes and rework them to Capitalist jokes. Even you athiests have to agree with what the bible says about the love of money.
The site is far, far better than it was when he was running for Congres, but it has a long way to go. I'm looking at it at work, and kind of enjoy the fact that it's partially broken in Internet Explorer.
I love the idea and sincerely hop it works. I'm critiquing it here in hopes they'll improve it farther. I want this thng to work!
I say "Partially" broken because the Google Map takes so long to load it SEEMS to not work; one would click a page link or the "back" button long before the map loaded. Perhaps I'm mistaken in thinking that this is an IE failure. I'll have to look at it in Firefox later.
More critique on the site:
+ large print. Again, I'll have to look in Firefox to see if [Ctrl]-[+] makes the typeface larger.
+ Good, easy navigation.
+ Not image intensive
+ No flash! Yay, I hate flash!
- Nav bar is blue on blue. Not all of us are under 30. Geezers have a problem with low contrast. This isn't a Jazz Jackrabbit site, after all.
- The margins are too big. It looks clunky and amateurish.
- <script src="http://media.change-congress.org/jsr_class.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="http://media.change-congress.org/jquery-1.2.3.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="http://media.change-congress.org/jquery-form.js"></script> I'll have to download these scripts later when I have more time to see what they do, but the mouseovers are surely included in one of the scripts. One of my own personal rules (YMMV) is "never use a scripting language unless it's absolutely, positively necessary." Plain vanilla HTML is always best when it is possible. A page that looks like plain vanilla HTML should be plain vanilla HTML.
- width: 50px;
}
#content {
width: 720px;
padding: 30px 30px 10px 30px; NEVER use absolute positionng unless absolutely necessary. You don't know your reader's screen size or resolution. My computer at home has a 42 inch monitor set at 512 scan lines; it's a TV set. It also has an old 14 inch monitor that's started malfunctioning, so I can't use the whole 14 inches.
-<ul> er, what's that for? There's no unordered list!
I just read an article about some author (I wish I could remember his name)
Stephen King, and the story is as wierdly twisted as King's own books. His writing is incredible; I start reading the shit and can't put it down. But he wierded me out so bad with Sphere I had to stop Stephen King books. I can't read his stuff any more than I can smoke cigarettes again
He was setting out to prove that if he put it on the internet nobody would buy it, and promised to keep putting up chapters so long as people paid.
People paid beyond anyone's wildest dreams. He broke his promise; he had no intention of ever finishing his free book to begin with.
You see, intellectual "property" is really nothing like physical property
That is entirely correct. The difference between stealing music and unfringing copyright is that when you steal music, you walk into Best Buy and shoplift a CD. Best Buy eats the cost they paid for that CD, they no longer have the CD you stole. If you get caught you will be given a small fine for misdemeanor retail theift.
If you download music, first you haven't deprived anyone of anything. The copyright holder still has his original and his copyright.
Second, downloading isn't illegal, uploading is. Uploading infringes copyright, not downloading. If you think giving something away is stealing then you have some severe communication and cognitive problems. If you get caught infringing copyright you won't be charged with a misdemeanor and pay a few hundred dollars, you will be sued in CIVIL (not criminal) court and pay thousands upon thousands.
This seems to ignore the fact that it is VASTLY cheaper to download an mp3 or an album than it is to download a video game
And you seem to ignore the fact that it is vastly cheaper to BUY a CD than to buy a video game. A video game is sixty bucks and up, while I buy my CDs for $5-10. Why so cheap? Because I buy mine from the bands when they play in bars, and the occasional old band at the used record store that recorded before good bands got smart enough to tell the lables who wanted to assrape them withouit lube to go fuck off.
Your industry needs to be hit upside the head with a clue bat. Stop gouging your customers with your insanely high prices and stop fucking over your signed bands. They used to need you like and addict needs heroin, since there was no way to record, produce, stamp, and market an LP. Now they can do it by themselves and have no need for you! The only thing you can do for them now is get them on the radio, and since less than 1% of signed bands ever get airplay, why bother? Only an idiot would sign a contract with a major label these days.
So an illegal practice is threatening their business,
Actually the illegal practice isn't threatening your business. What's killing you is your refusal to adapt to a changing world. Your CDs need to come down in price to match the indies. Economy of scale says there's no reason you can't. And you need to stop raping your artists and offer them something they don't have to be a total fucktard to accept.
...and they should react by enhancing their product at much more cost to themselves?
I would. But I'd rather you didn't, because if you don't you'll die, as evil always should.
Would you pay $25 for a CD if it included a poster that you could buy for $12 on eBay and download the mp3s for free?
Hell no I wouldn't pay $25 for a CD! That's just retarded. I pay ten bucks tops, and bitch at that price.
And before you flame, the only music I download is the same music I buy - indie music. The indies post their music on the internet themselves, as you in the MAFIAA would if your brains weren't all full of holes from the cocaine abuse.
-mcgrew
PS- please put me on your foes list like all the other trolls, atroturfers, and fucktards at slashdot do. Love and kisses. XX00;)
I'm beginning to increasingly believe the old cliche, "Information wants to be free".
Please don't. You'll look as stupid as the cliche itself. Information does NOT want to be free. It doesn't want anything. It has no brain, no mind, no feelings, no heart, nothing. It is incapable of wanting.
"Marijuana wants to be lagle". Doesn't that sound like some stupid stoner got one of those brain farts and actually remembered it later and wrote it down?
I want information to be free, and you may also, but information itself doesn't want anything. This cliche does absolutely nothing to free information.
I have good health care, too. What happens isn't that you get the care that "bums and crack addicts" get (and I find your classism appalling), what happens is that the "bums and crack addicts" that clean the toilets where your wife works and cook the hamburgers at McDonalds (and there's a woman that goes to Farley's who works at McDonald's and is, in fact, a crack addict) will get the same health care you are now priveliged to get.
You get the bonus of not having to pay health insurance premiums. The "bum" cleaning your toilets at work will have a lower co-pay than you will likely be the only difference between you and them, healthwise. You won't NEED health insurance; it will be "free" (as in "free roads and schools") and should be every bit as good as what you have now, unless you elect dipshits.
Your taxes may go up, but with the middleman removed (insurance company) it will go up far less than you're paying for insurance now. If we can afford to wage a war in Iraq for non-existant WMDs we can surely afford insulin for diabetics and pennicillin for the woman waiting tables at the expensive restaraunt for less than minimum wage's skin infection.
All you lose is your sense of smug superiority. The only losers are the insurance company executives and stockholders, whose gravy train runs out of track.
Dream on. In America a rich powerful man only goes to prison if a richer, more powerful man wants him there. The rule of law is worthless when legislators are bought and sold like cattle.
For instance, how many Sony executives went to prison for the XCP rootkit? That's right, none. Nobody from Comcast will serve time either, and if they donated enough money to the campaigns of the "elected" officials and legislators they'll continue to be able to abuse their customers.
For this to be true, your net worth would be $11,250,000.
OK, I didn't bother looking up his net worth, but my net worth is negative. I owe a mortgage company, a car loan, and a couple of credit cards like just about every other working American. The point stands; a hundred bucks to someone having his wealth and income is chump change, and being late to a meeting with an important client may cost his company hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Link:
Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc, and is the founder of Pixar Animation Studios and was its CEO until it was acquired by the Walt Disney Company in 2006.[2] Jobs is currently the Walt Disney Company's largest individual shareholder[7] and a member of its Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. Steve Jobs is listed as Fortune Magazine's most powerful Businessman of 2007 out of twenty-five other top businessmen.[8]
His current salary at Apple officially remains US$1 per year, although he has traditionally been the recipient of a number of lucrative "executive gifts" from the board, including a US$46 million jet in 1999 and just under 30 million shares of restricted stock in 2000-2002[30].
Don't take that one dollar per year income too seriously, dude. That airplane he was paid in 1999 is a thousand times my annual salary. So I was indeed incorrect; his hundred dollar fine is akin to less than a penny fine to me!
Not true at all. [links to wiki articles on medicaid, medicare, and schips]
Medicaid (your first link) only covers the destitute. If you work, you aren't eligible. Most poor in the US hold jobs, and their jobs don't offer insurance.
Medicare only covers the elderly; you must be over 65.
SCHIP only covers children.
If you work two minimum wage jobs and are 20 year old, you have no health care. Care to link a Wikipedia article on some program that will help the guy who asks if you want fries with that, or who drives a cab or a school bus?
It says nothing in there about taking other people's money to pay for these programs.
I never implied that it did. I said most people who consider themselves Christians put money way before God, and I suspect you may be one of them.
Unauthorized parking in a handicapped spot is a violation of state law. In this case, the rules do apply to Jobs, regardless of the high opinion he has of himself.
To Steve Jobs, the hundred dollar fine he'd pay here for parking in a handicapped spot is akin to my putting a quarter in a parking meter. Chump change not worth worrying about.
Fines should be based on net worth, or at least income. Since they're not, the richer you are the less the law applies to you.
there aren't enough young people to service all the old people
I'm 56, you ignorant clod. Where did you get such a stupid, heartless idea? I suppose you'ld kill my handicapped daughter, too, you asshole.
But it would be better if we could stop wasting resources on treating old sick people and start using them to treat young people with a future ahead of them.
Yeah wait 'til you're my age, buddy. You'll change your tune, you heartless dumbass.
I look forward to watching all these bastards with their overdeveloped sense of entitlement coughing out their last breaths in some ditch searching for their last meal.
That will be you in thirty years, moron.
Why hasn't that awful troll been modded down yet? Or better yet, castrated so he can't pass his worthless genes to the next generation?
About twenty years ago a friend who drove a cab for a living was called to pick up a fare at the Hay Homes, a now demolished public housing project. He'd just started his shift, and since cab drivers are dirt poor (tip your cabbie you cheapo bastard) he had fifty cents in his pocket.
There was an attempted robbery and he was shot through the heart. He was killed for half a buck. RIP Danny.
Sucks being past the half century mark, a lot of my friends are already dead.
We have structured our health care system to provide care to everyone
You must not live in the US, I'm guessing Canada. Here the poor have no health care, and many middle class people have no health care either because they can't afford the insurance premiums. Since the poor can't go to a doctor and fix a problem when it's small, their only health care is the emergency room. Lack of mental health care causes massive homelessness for crazy people who could be treated and become productive members of society.
Debt collectors for doctors hound you just as hard here as credit card companies. Doctors and nurses do it for the money - the dentist I had when young (he's long since died) said that when he was in college he decided on dentistry when his wife ran up huge dental bills.
America is a land whose inhabitants worship the almighty dollar to the exclusion of everything else, where husband and wife work and strangers raise their children in day care centers, since the money is more important than their own kids (My ex stayed home, but we were the exception). Money here is even more important than life, liberty, love, and friendship. Money is seen to equal happiness.
It is a land of plenty, but it is an impoverished nation when one considers the things that really matter. Because of the national religion of mammon worship (mammon worshipers who mostly consider themselves Christian) we are not very damned likely to ever get universal health care like the civilized world has.
My best friend's name was Jim Dawson. I knew him since I was a teenager. His employer didn't offer health insurance, and he contracted appendicitis. When his appendix burst he was rushed to the hospital for surgery, and his credit was ruined as he struggled to pay off his medical debt. He knew something was wrong with him, but wasn't about to put his family through the hell they had gone through at the hands of the bill collectors.
He died of a heart attack in 1992, two weeks short of his 40th birthday. Had health care been available to him he would be alive today.
My country's method of paying for health care is nothing short of barbaric. I hope Jim's ghost haunts all of you who oppose universal health care.
OT but since it's from yesterday nobody will mod, but that's where the "coca" in Coca-Cola" comes from. It was a "temperance drink" that made workers work harder; i.e. "performance enhansing drug" instead of the alcoholic beverages that made workers lazy buffoons.
They say "Babe Ruth did it on beer and hot dogs" but they didn't have drug tests back then, how would anyone know if he was snorting or injecting cocaine before a game?
Also, I can't say that I've ever met someone trying to pass themself off as a Lager.
There's an old folk song, not sure where it's from, I think Canada since they do a lot of logging up there, and it gets damned cold. It was on an album called The Weavers On Tour IINM,AIPA.
The Frozen Lager As I sat down one evening, 'twas in a small cafe, A forty year old waitress to me these words did say: "Well, I see that you are a lager, and not just a common bum 'cause nobody but a lager stirs his coffee with his thumb.
"My lover was a lager, there's none like him today. If you poured whiskey on it he would eat a bale of hay. Well, he never shaved his whickers from off of his horney hide. He'd just drive them in with a hammer and bite them off inside.
"My lover came to see me one cold and freezing day. He held me in his warm embrace and broke three vertebre. He kissed me when we parted so hard that it broke my jaw. I could not speak to tell him he'd forgot his macinaw.
"The weather, it tried to freeze him. It tried its level best. At a hundred degrees below zero he buttoned up his vest. It froze clean throgh to China. It froze to the stars above. At a thousand degrees below zero it froze my lager love.
"And so I lost my lover, and to this cafe I come. And here I wait 'til someone stirs his coffee with his thumb."
.. and if you have to walk, what are the odds a pub will be withing a couple of block of your house ?
Here in Springfield you can't throw a bottle without hitting a bar. There are over half dozen bars within a fifteen minute stagger from my house. Lots of mornings I have to walk to the bar before I can drive to work.
It's been long known that beer is the drink of the underclasses. Wine, of course, being the preferred drink of the upper classes.
Then can you explain the existance of winos?
In the US, beer is primarily a drink of those whose anscestors are from northern Europe (e.g. Germany) while wine is a drink for those descended from southern Europe (e.g. Italy). It has to do with the "little ice age". The vinyards in Northern Europe were devastated, and grain alcohol (beer, whiskey) replaced wine in those regions.
The rich drink imported beer (Heiniken, etc) while those of us who work for a living drink domestic beer (Budweiser, etc). It has nothing whatever to do with class, everything to do with what part of the world you and your anscestors live.
Slashdot Mirror
Or the camera operates on a wavelength duct tape is transparent to.
then you know what I do? I unplug the fscker, cancel my service [not that I'd deal with comcast in the first place] and go post on slashdot or something. it really isn't that important to watch TV
I know this is going to come as a shock to you non-geezers, but you can watch TV without cable! There's satellite TV (several providers IINM) and good old trusty rabbit ears (my rabbit ears are amplified and deliver a very good picture) or roof antenna.
When I was a kid we only had three channels, and that was in the St Louis Metro area! I'm in dinky little Springfield IL now, and I can pick up nine channels.
Yeah, I could get dozens of channels with cable but so what? When I had cable I didn't watch very many anyway. If there's a program on cable I want to watch I'll go to a bar (I'm usually in one anyway). I used to like The Discovery Channel before they started sucking. Instead of "The Andromeda Galaxy: little known secrets" now there's "Painting race cars: little known secrets". They have ESPN on and there's... championship POKER??? Pool? WTF is next, twiddly winks?
At least when I was a kid there was Ernie Kovacs and Red Skelton. You young whippersnappers don't know what you're missing.
If they impliment this I'm going to have to make another article alomg the lines of Good Riddance to Bad Tech about bad tech we SHOULD get rid of... maybe add it to Dog-Slow Technologies and rename the sucker.
-mcgrew
If you cover up the lens, the cable box goes "Your papers, please." Then you'll have to type your SSN or passport number in with the remote before you can watch TV.
Shamelessle and blatantly stolen from A Child's Garden of Grass: A Pre-Legalization Comedy (1971)
"Your paperss, pleass!"
"Uh, but I only got a pipe, man."
"Zen you'll haff to come vith ME!"
But seriously (boo! he's serious!), is there ANY evil the corporations won't stoop to? Time to take all those lame stale lawyer jokes and rework them to Capitalist jokes. Even you athiests have to agree with what the bible says about the love of money.
I love the idea and sincerely hop it works. I'm critiquing it here in hopes they'll improve it farther. I want this thng to work!
I say "Partially" broken because the Google Map takes so long to load it SEEMS to not work; one would click a page link or the "back" button long before the map loaded. Perhaps I'm mistaken in thinking that this is an IE failure. I'll have to look at it in Firefox later.
More critique on the site:
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="http://media.change-congress.org/jquery-1.2.3.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="http://media.change-congress.org/jquery-form.js"></script>
I'll have to download these scripts later when I have more time to see what they do, but the mouseovers are surely included in one of the scripts. One of my own personal rules (YMMV) is "never use a scripting language unless it's absolutely, positively necessary." Plain vanilla HTML is always best when it is possible. A page that looks like plain vanilla HTML should be plain vanilla HTML.
}
#content {
width: 720px;
padding: 30px 30px 10px 30px;
NEVER use absolute positionng unless absolutely necessary. You don't know your reader's screen size or resolution. My computer at home has a 42 inch monitor set at 512 scan lines; it's a TV set. It also has an old 14 inch monitor that's started malfunctioning, so I can't use the whole 14 inches.
I just read an article about some author (I wish I could remember his name)
Stephen King, and the story is as wierdly twisted as King's own books. His writing is incredible; I start reading the shit and can't put it down. But he wierded me out so bad with Sphere I had to stop Stephen King books. I can't read his stuff any more than I can smoke cigarettes again
He was setting out to prove that if he put it on the internet nobody would buy it, and promised to keep putting up chapters so long as people paid.
People paid beyond anyone's wildest dreams. He broke his promise; he had no intention of ever finishing his free book to begin with.
He's a great writer, but he's just fucking EVIL.
You see, intellectual "property" is really nothing like physical property
That is entirely correct. The difference between stealing music and unfringing copyright is that when you steal music, you walk into Best Buy and shoplift a CD. Best Buy eats the cost they paid for that CD, they no longer have the CD you stole. If you get caught you will be given a small fine for misdemeanor retail theift.
If you download music, first you haven't deprived anyone of anything. The copyright holder still has his original and his copyright.
Second, downloading isn't illegal, uploading is. Uploading infringes copyright, not downloading. If you think giving something away is stealing then you have some severe communication and cognitive problems. If you get caught infringing copyright you won't be charged with a misdemeanor and pay a few hundred dollars, you will be sued in CIVIL (not criminal) court and pay thousands upon thousands.
And you seem to ignore the fact that it is vastly cheaper to BUY a CD than to buy a video game. A video game is sixty bucks and up, while I buy my CDs for $5-10. Why so cheap? Because I buy mine from the bands when they play in bars, and the occasional old band at the used record store that recorded before good bands got smart enough to tell the lables who wanted to assrape them withouit lube to go fuck off.
Your industry needs to be hit upside the head with a clue bat. Stop gouging your customers with your insanely high prices and stop fucking over your signed bands. They used to need you like and addict needs heroin, since there was no way to record, produce, stamp, and market an LP. Now they can do it by themselves and have no need for you! The only thing you can do for them now is get them on the radio, and since less than 1% of signed bands ever get airplay, why bother? Only an idiot would sign a contract with a major label these days.
So an illegal practice is threatening their business,
Actually the illegal practice isn't threatening your business. What's killing you is your refusal to adapt to a changing world. Your CDs need to come down in price to match the indies. Economy of scale says there's no reason you can't. And you need to stop raping your artists and offer them something they don't have to be a total fucktard to accept.
I would. But I'd rather you didn't, because if you don't you'll die, as evil always should.
Would you pay $25 for a CD if it included a poster that you could buy for $12 on eBay and download the mp3s for free?
Hell no I wouldn't pay $25 for a CD! That's just retarded. I pay ten bucks tops, and bitch at that price.
And before you flame, the only music I download is the same music I buy - indie music. The indies post their music on the internet themselves, as you in the MAFIAA would if your brains weren't all full of holes from the cocaine abuse.
-mcgrew
PS- please put me on your foes list like all the other trolls, atroturfers, and fucktards at slashdot do. Love and kisses. XX00
I'm beginning to increasingly believe the old cliche, "Information wants to be free".
Please don't. You'll look as stupid as the cliche itself. Information does NOT want to be free. It doesn't want anything. It has no brain, no mind, no feelings, no heart, nothing. It is incapable of wanting.
"Marijuana wants to be lagle". Doesn't that sound like some stupid stoner got one of those brain farts and actually remembered it later and wrote it down?
I want information to be free, and you may also, but information itself doesn't want anything. This cliche does absolutely nothing to free information.
I have good health care, too. What happens isn't that you get the care that "bums and crack addicts" get (and I find your classism appalling), what happens is that the "bums and crack addicts" that clean the toilets where your wife works and cook the hamburgers at McDonalds (and there's a woman that goes to Farley's who works at McDonald's and is, in fact, a crack addict) will get the same health care you are now priveliged to get.
You get the bonus of not having to pay health insurance premiums. The "bum" cleaning your toilets at work will have a lower co-pay than you will likely be the only difference between you and them, healthwise. You won't NEED health insurance; it will be "free" (as in "free roads and schools") and should be every bit as good as what you have now, unless you elect dipshits.
Your taxes may go up, but with the middleman removed (insurance company) it will go up far less than you're paying for insurance now. If we can afford to wage a war in Iraq for non-existant WMDs we can surely afford insulin for diabetics and pennicillin for the woman waiting tables at the expensive restaraunt for less than minimum wage's skin infection.
All you lose is your sense of smug superiority. The only losers are the insurance company executives and stockholders, whose gravy train runs out of track.
In Springfield (home of alderman Simpson) the city owns the power company and the water company, and we have the cheapest electricity in the midwest, and service is very reliable. I wish CWLP would provide cable, telephone, gas, and internet!
Note this drawing of Springfield's mayor Davlin, CWLP's general manager Todd Renfro, and some guy probably related in some way to alderman Simpson.
-mcgrew (yes, my town is a cartoon)
someone might do time for it
Dream on. In America a rich powerful man only goes to prison if a richer, more powerful man wants him there. The rule of law is worthless when legislators are bought and sold like cattle.
For instance, how many Sony executives went to prison for the XCP rootkit? That's right, none. Nobody from Comcast will serve time either, and if they donated enough money to the campaigns of the "elected" officials and legislators they'll continue to be able to abuse their customers.
And now for something completely different:
-mcgrew
OK, I didn't bother looking up his net worth, but my net worth is negative. I owe a mortgage company, a car loan, and a couple of credit cards like just about every other working American. The point stands; a hundred bucks to someone having his wealth and income is chump change, and being late to a meeting with an important client may cost his company hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Link: Don't take that one dollar per year income too seriously, dude. That airplane he was paid in 1999 is a thousand times my annual salary. So I was indeed incorrect; his hundred dollar fine is akin to less than a penny fine to me!
Not true at all. [links to wiki articles on medicaid, medicare, and schips]
Medicaid (your first link) only covers the destitute. If you work, you aren't eligible. Most poor in the US hold jobs, and their jobs don't offer insurance.
Medicare only covers the elderly; you must be over 65.
SCHIP only covers children.
If you work two minimum wage jobs and are 20 year old, you have no health care. Care to link a Wikipedia article on some program that will help the guy who asks if you want fries with that, or who drives a cab or a school bus?
It says nothing in there about taking other people's money to pay for these programs.
I never implied that it did. I said most people who consider themselves Christians put money way before God, and I suspect you may be one of them.
Unauthorized parking in a handicapped spot is a violation of state law. In this case, the rules do apply to Jobs, regardless of the high opinion he has of himself.
To Steve Jobs, the hundred dollar fine he'd pay here for parking in a handicapped spot is akin to my putting a quarter in a parking meter. Chump change not worth worrying about.
Fines should be based on net worth, or at least income. Since they're not, the richer you are the less the law applies to you.
Are you sure it wasn't your cousin's mother's sister's uncle?
;)
He's from Arkansas, it's the same guy!
there aren't enough young people to service all the old people
I'm 56, you ignorant clod. Where did you get such a stupid, heartless idea? I suppose you'ld kill my handicapped daughter, too, you asshole.
But it would be better if we could stop wasting resources on treating old sick people and start using them to treat young people with a future ahead of them.
Yeah wait 'til you're my age, buddy. You'll change your tune, you heartless dumbass.
I look forward to watching all these bastards with their overdeveloped sense of entitlement coughing out their last breaths in some ditch searching for their last meal.
That will be you in thirty years, moron.
Why hasn't that awful troll been modded down yet? Or better yet, castrated so he can't pass his worthless genes to the next generation?
Some kill for 100$
About twenty years ago a friend who drove a cab for a living was called to pick up a fare at the Hay Homes, a now demolished public housing project. He'd just started his shift, and since cab drivers are dirt poor (tip your cabbie you cheapo bastard) he had fifty cents in his pocket.
There was an attempted robbery and he was shot through the heart. He was killed for half a buck. RIP Danny.
Sucks being past the half century mark, a lot of my friends are already dead.
We have structured our health care system to provide care to everyone
You must not live in the US, I'm guessing Canada. Here the poor have no health care, and many middle class people have no health care either because they can't afford the insurance premiums. Since the poor can't go to a doctor and fix a problem when it's small, their only health care is the emergency room. Lack of mental health care causes massive homelessness for crazy people who could be treated and become productive members of society.
Debt collectors for doctors hound you just as hard here as credit card companies. Doctors and nurses do it for the money - the dentist I had when young (he's long since died) said that when he was in college he decided on dentistry when his wife ran up huge dental bills.
America is a land whose inhabitants worship the almighty dollar to the exclusion of everything else, where husband and wife work and strangers raise their children in day care centers, since the money is more important than their own kids (My ex stayed home, but we were the exception). Money here is even more important than life, liberty, love, and friendship. Money is seen to equal happiness.
It is a land of plenty, but it is an impoverished nation when one considers the things that really matter. Because of the national religion of mammon worship (mammon worshipers who mostly consider themselves Christian) we are not very damned likely to ever get universal health care like the civilized world has.
My best friend's name was Jim Dawson. I knew him since I was a teenager. His employer didn't offer health insurance, and he contracted appendicitis. When his appendix burst he was rushed to the hospital for surgery, and his credit was ruined as he struggled to pay off his medical debt. He knew something was wrong with him, but wasn't about to put his family through the hell they had gone through at the hands of the bill collectors.
He died of a heart attack in 1992, two weeks short of his 40th birthday. Had health care been available to him he would be alive today.
My country's method of paying for health care is nothing short of barbaric. I hope Jim's ghost haunts all of you who oppose universal health care.
-mcgrew
OT but since it's from yesterday nobody will mod, but that's where the "coca" in Coca-Cola" comes from. It was a "temperance drink" that made workers work harder; i.e. "performance enhansing drug" instead of the alcoholic beverages that made workers lazy buffoons.
They say "Babe Ruth did it on beer and hot dogs" but they didn't have drug tests back then, how would anyone know if he was snorting or injecting cocaine before a game?
There's an old folk song, not sure where it's from, I think Canada since they do a lot of logging up there, and it gets damned cold. It was on an album called The Weavers On Tour IINM,AIPA.My ex wife usually has pills in her.
the whimpy US drinking our watered down p*ss at 82 liters per person.
That's over 20 gallons. Nobody I know drinks that much a day, not even Amy.
.. and if you have to walk, what are the odds a pub will be withing a couple of block of your house ?
Here in Springfield you can't throw a bottle without hitting a bar. There are over half dozen bars within a fifteen minute stagger from my house. Lots of mornings I have to walk to the bar before I can drive to work.
-mcgrew
He would describe a math proof by how many cans of beer he drank before finishing the proof. (no kidding).
I had a final exam in a sculpture class which consisted of all of us drinking beer. The pile of empties when we were done was art. Because we said so!
Note that the linked wikipedia article has a shitload of statues (some of them actually great works of art, like the naked man with the small penis that gay guy Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni carved) but very little sculpture as is done today.
But I digress, sorry, I'm bad about that.
-mcgrew
May be more sex means better science :D
Then explain this stereotype?
(Someone said that particular mcgrew journal entry (most of them actually) is NSFW, YMMV)
-mcgrew
It's been long known that beer is the drink of the underclasses. Wine, of course, being the preferred drink of the upper classes.
Then can you explain the existance of winos?
In the US, beer is primarily a drink of those whose anscestors are from northern Europe (e.g. Germany) while wine is a drink for those descended from southern Europe (e.g. Italy). It has to do with the "little ice age". The vinyards in Northern Europe were devastated, and grain alcohol (beer, whiskey) replaced wine in those regions.
The rich drink imported beer (Heiniken, etc) while those of us who work for a living drink domestic beer (Budweiser, etc). It has nothing whatever to do with class, everything to do with what part of the world you and your anscestors live.