Uh, Amazon didn't ban monster erotica - or dino erotica
Up until a few minutes ago, I was blissfully unaware that monster erotica or dinosaur erotica were even things. I mean, I know that man's capacity for deviance is endless, but I had no idea.
I think it's time for me to start drinking to see if I can erase the images these things bring to mind. I may never be the same again.
But I don't blame them for their success. All choices are still personal.
But some "choices" aren't really choices, are they?
And this is how money controls elections. Not by forcing anyone to pick one candidate over another, but to pre-choose the candidates before the voters even know who they are.
There is a "money primary" that happens way before the voters decide who their candidates are going to be. And the "money primary" has now filtered all the way down to town council candidates, county board presidents and even local school boards.
"The will of the government" is a dangerous thing. Government employees deserve the same vote that everyone else gets. You seem to be arguing that something can be good because "the government" is in favor of it,
Just the opposite. I was replying to someone who was trying to assert that public transit is bad because he doesn't like public transit.
In Chicago, people love their public transit. They've been voting for it for 100 years.
Whenever people think of APTs and targeted attacks, they ask: who did it? What did they want? While those questions may well be of some interest, a potentially more useful question to ask is: what information about the attacker can help organizations protect themselves better?
Motive and attribution definitely matter if the organization attacked deserves to be attacked.
People inside the city would preer to be walled off from the rest of the plebian state, and the rest of the state agrees wholeheartedly.
Actually no. The rest of Illinois waits greedily for the tax revenue that Chicago generates. Without Chicago, downstate Illinois is basically Kentucky.
Boston has had an app like this; it's called "Citizens Connect."
Oh, I thought that was a dating app. That explains why those guys from Streets and Sanitation showed up and found me dressed as Princess Leia when I was expecting a swarthy Luke Skywalker.
Robert Reich is certainly right on about the demise of capitalism. Corporations stack the deck so much in their favor that capitalism as we used to have it, as it used to benefit average people, and lift them out of poverty, is pretty much dead.
Unfortunately for future generations, I'm pretty sure the demise of the kind of capitalism we used to have was inevitable. You can go back to the '20s and '30s and find critics of capitalism describing this exact scenario in great detail.
Like Empire America, the seeds of capitalism's own destruction were sown at it's very birth. It was a good run, though. It's kind of like cocaine. For a while, you're on top of the world, and everything's terrific. You love everyone and you've never been so productive. But eventually, it's going to rot you from the inside and you end up turning tricks and snatching purses.
small ones run by real Americans apparently are fine
What the fuck is a "real American"? Is it the Canadian-born son of a Cuban refugee who's running for President? Is it the naturalized Iraqi-American who owns a convenience store? How about an Australian who owns some of the most powerful media outlets in the US along with a Saudi prince?
Please enlighten us.
I'm all for gutting Wall Street, but when I hear that kind of populism paired up with phrases like "real American" I kind of get the willies.
John F. Kennedy; his Hollywood pimp, Peter Lawford; and Jack Mankiewicz, who left JFK's cabinet to become head of the MPAA. That's just history.
I seem to recall a president back in the '80s that had some ties to Hollywood, too. A union organizer and former actor, if memory serves. Wife a former showgirl.
Right... Except that you can get a different city government that doesn't waste money on mass transit in situations where it doesn't work by voting for different people.
So, government that provides you with services you like is good government and government that provides other people with things they like is bad government that wastes money.
"Friggin' SJWs, the lot of 'em. They should just stop the UN from giving these stupid Nobel prizes, because they always go to feminazis anyway, like that Chemistry Nobel last week that they gave to Youyou Tu just because she was a woman. I mean, who even gets malaria anymore?"
Con-Agra was going to get tax abatement anywhere they went, and in fact, even with the tax abatement, they're going to be paying more taxes than they did in Omaha after the move to Chicago.
Boeing's tax bill also went up after the move to Chicago. However, the Federal subsidies were enormous. And again, those subsidies had nothing to do with the City of Chicago. Every state in the US offers companies sweeteners to move. It's why we have a race to the bottom in this country.
Yea, I've been in Chicago (last week actually) and I'm chuckling too, mostly at you. Yea the "EL" is there and folks do ride the thing, but to get around the windy city and the suburbs, the bulk of people take the extensive number of toll ways in their cars. There is a reason the number of I-Pass holders exceeds the number of public transit riders by an order of magnitude or two.
First of all, it's not the "EL" it's the "L". Second, there are exactly ZERO tollways within the Chicago city limits. Nobody pays tolls getting around Chicago. If you want to come in from Milwaukee or fucking Indiana, yes there are toll roads that start in Indiana and that's only because nobody wants anyone from Milwaukee or Indiana coming into the city because they don't know how to behave.
There is a reason the number of I-Pass holders exceeds the number of public transit riders by an order of magnitude or two.
Yes, it's because the I-PASS is for the entire state of Illinois and public transit customers tend to live in the Chicago area.
Personally, I chose to drive myself while I was there...
May I ask where you're from? I'm really curious. Plus, I want to write a letter to city government asking to build a wall.
I'm not sure the city/government is who I want in charge of making sure of my quality of life is good enough
Really? Do you have your own well for water? Who picks up your garbage? If you get into an accident, or are the victim of a crime, you gonna call the police, or Ayn fucking Rand?
This is what I mean about libertarians being stupid. They expect their streets plowed, and potholes fixed, but don't want city government.
The city government that picks up your goddamn garbage and plows your streets in the winter is the same one that builds mass transit.
Which is my general point about light rail. It never pays for itself though fares, but ALWAYS requires substantial subsidies from local governments to survive.
It's also a huge economic engine. One of the reasons Boeing and Con-Agra moved to Chicago was because of the transit and the reasonable traffic (because of the good public transit).
I know Libertarians hate public transportation, but for the most part, they are kind of stupid.
Which is EXACTLY the problem with public transit, It's almost never convenient for anybody using it, takes longer than driving yourself, and always requires financial support from tax payers because you never can charge the riders enough.
Public transport is great for what it is, but let's not fool ourselves into thinking it is a solution for traffic congestion or that we can make it convenient and cheap enough to get people who have other options to ride it...
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Up until a few minutes ago, I was blissfully unaware that monster erotica or dinosaur erotica were even things. I mean, I know that man's capacity for deviance is endless, but I had no idea.
I think it's time for me to start drinking to see if I can erase the images these things bring to mind. I may never be the same again.
Or maybe you've just made the trap seem bigger so you can't even see the cage any more.
But some "choices" aren't really choices, are they?
And this is how money controls elections. Not by forcing anyone to pick one candidate over another, but to pre-choose the candidates before the voters even know who they are.
There is a "money primary" that happens way before the voters decide who their candidates are going to be. And the "money primary" has now filtered all the way down to town council candidates, county board presidents and even local school boards.
Just the opposite. I was replying to someone who was trying to assert that public transit is bad because he doesn't like public transit.
In Chicago, people love their public transit. They've been voting for it for 100 years.
Motive and attribution definitely matter if the organization attacked deserves to be attacked.
Not all "organizations" are blameless.
I think a trip to Vegas would be beneficial.
In case anyone's asking.
Actually no. The rest of Illinois waits greedily for the tax revenue that Chicago generates. Without Chicago, downstate Illinois is basically Kentucky.
Oh, I thought that was a dating app. That explains why those guys from Streets and Sanitation showed up and found me dressed as Princess Leia when I was expecting a swarthy Luke Skywalker.
Unfortunately for future generations, I'm pretty sure the demise of the kind of capitalism we used to have was inevitable. You can go back to the '20s and '30s and find critics of capitalism describing this exact scenario in great detail.
Like Empire America, the seeds of capitalism's own destruction were sown at it's very birth. It was a good run, though. It's kind of like cocaine. For a while, you're on top of the world, and everything's terrific. You love everyone and you've never been so productive. But eventually, it's going to rot you from the inside and you end up turning tricks and snatching purses.
What the fuck is a "real American"? Is it the Canadian-born son of a Cuban refugee who's running for President? Is it the naturalized Iraqi-American who owns a convenience store? How about an Australian who owns some of the most powerful media outlets in the US along with a Saudi prince?
Please enlighten us.
I'm all for gutting Wall Street, but when I hear that kind of populism paired up with phrases like "real American" I kind of get the willies.
I seem to recall a president back in the '80s that had some ties to Hollywood, too. A union organizer and former actor, if memory serves. Wife a former showgirl.
Where were you when Reagan was president? Then it might have made a difference. Today? It's too late, baby.
"Clean, safe, and too cheap to meter."
Really? The child cancer rates are 20-50x higher everywhere than people think?
You should read the article.
But that's an awesome stereotype.
It's like the stereotype of Italians being big "in the pants" and great lovers. I mean, OK. I'll take that.
No, we need some kind of insulting slur for Scandinavians, because they've got it just too damn good.
Corporate lawbreaking is "human nature" but whining isn't?
Is that a thing?
Has the day finally dawned when we can have an ethnic slur for Scandinavians? Here's hoping.
So, government that provides you with services you like is good government and government that provides other people with things they like is bad government that wastes money.
Let me make a note of that.
Let me kick it off:
"Friggin' SJWs, the lot of 'em. They should just stop the UN from giving these stupid Nobel prizes, because they always go to feminazis anyway, like that Chemistry Nobel last week that they gave to Youyou Tu just because she was a woman. I mean, who even gets malaria anymore?"
Con-Agra was going to get tax abatement anywhere they went, and in fact, even with the tax abatement, they're going to be paying more taxes than they did in Omaha after the move to Chicago.
Boeing's tax bill also went up after the move to Chicago. However, the Federal subsidies were enormous. And again, those subsidies had nothing to do with the City of Chicago. Every state in the US offers companies sweeteners to move. It's why we have a race to the bottom in this country.
So really, you're the one who's wrong.
First of all, it's not the "EL" it's the "L". Second, there are exactly ZERO tollways within the Chicago city limits. Nobody pays tolls getting around Chicago. If you want to come in from Milwaukee or fucking Indiana, yes there are toll roads that start in Indiana and that's only because nobody wants anyone from Milwaukee or Indiana coming into the city because they don't know how to behave.
Yes, it's because the I-PASS is for the entire state of Illinois and public transit customers tend to live in the Chicago area.
May I ask where you're from? I'm really curious. Plus, I want to write a letter to city government asking to build a wall.
Really? Do you have your own well for water? Who picks up your garbage? If you get into an accident, or are the victim of a crime, you gonna call the police, or Ayn fucking Rand?
This is what I mean about libertarians being stupid. They expect their streets plowed, and potholes fixed, but don't want city government.
The city government that picks up your goddamn garbage and plows your streets in the winter is the same one that builds mass transit.
It's also a huge economic engine. One of the reasons Boeing and Con-Agra moved to Chicago was because of the transit and the reasonable traffic (because of the good public transit).
I know Libertarians hate public transportation, but for the most part, they are kind of stupid.
And none of those woes are caused by public transit.
Chicago is the economic engine that makes Illinois run. Without Chicago, the state would be Indiana with better teeth.
People in Chicago are laughing at you.