18 wheelers = instant death...I would worry about those damn lawnmowers and electric kitchen knives....they would hurt more. Oh yeah...and avoid vending machines too. This of the pain that a rogue bag of corn chips or a pack of Ho-Ho's might cause!
Here is a challenge for you all. Ask a high school kid what is easier to obtain, tobacco, alcohol, or drugs etc. I am willing to bet that you will find that it is in fact easier for them to find drugs. It can all be obtained, however, with alcohol and cigs being readily available for adults it is more difficult for kids to get them. Drugs on the other hand are easier and generally cheaper to get from fellow classmates. Hell weed and shrooms can be obtained from almost any rural area.
I can remember, when I was very young growing up on my great grand fathers farm, my aunts walking into the cow pasture and getting shroom, not to mention their horticulture projects in the holler. Who needs beer when you have cultivation?
My point is that because recreational drugs are unregulated it is easier for kids to find and obtain. Alcohol and tobacco require an age check at the stores that sell them. A drug dealers generally doesn't ask for ID.
I thought that cloning the Neanderthal was done several years ago. I mean come on, haven't you seen the Gieco Insurance commercials? They have them playing the piano and riding motorcycles. Even playing tennis with Billy Jean King for crying out loud!
On a more serious note...Why? It isn't like these clones would have a memory of what cured in the past or some arcane knowledge that has been lost to the ages. Then you add in the fact that this clone would have no immunities to current diseases.
Why the hell don't we spend that $458 million on developing something useful like...i dunno...a battery the size of a suitcase that can recharge in 1 hour and power a car for 250 mile at 70mph? Or a hydroxy generating system that can power a home generator? Or a solar panel that is cheap enough for the average home owner to install and power their entire home?
These things are all just barely out of reach. $500 million could solve on of these energy problem yet it is deemed more important to study the atmosphere of a planet that we can barely access with remote platforms.
Please don't get me wrong. I love science and space exploration, but we really need to start prioritizing our needs as a country. If any one of the above energy solutions were found it would be conceivable that he costs of further exploration would come down drastically. Horse before the cart people....
Every few years I hear about discussions and arguments about unionizing IT. There are a few in existence, generally associated with electrical or cabling unions. Personally, I feel that in general (note the "in general") unions of any kind tend to be counter productive and usually contribute to; the loss of positions, due to increased individual wages; increased work loads, to compensate for the loss of positions; and no real monetary gain for the individual works, because of the outlay of dues. The only real benefactors of unions are the unions' hierarchy. Add to that the general trend for IT workers to bounce ever 2 or 3 years and there really is no need.
If the argument for them is to limit the outsourcing of jobs, the I would submit this. Penalize corporations that out source by implementing a 'labor tariff' based on a percentage of outsourced employees. So for instance if a 1000 employee company has 100 jobs off shore, they should pay a 10% tariff on their income. (note not 10% of their income, 10% of the tariff). Then again, we really don't enforce tariffs here, as the Constitution lays it out.
I agree, too much sugar in the form of fructose or sucrose is harmful. However the density of fructose in HIGH fructose corn syrup make it much worse that straight fructose. If you examine the ratios of obesity and diabetes (as well as other health problems) you will notice that the occurrences increase at the same rate of consumption of HFCS. Additionally, in countries that do not use HFCS (Europe, Brazil, etc) the rates of obesity and diabetes are drastically less in comparison. These people have lifestyle similar to those of US citizens. Fructose is processed differently by the liver and the density of the fructose in HFCS is much higher than the fructose found in fruits so the liver has to work overtime to keep up. My point to all of this is that the studies that *claim* HFCS is no different from any other sweetener are produced by the consortium that produce the product (HELLO TOBACCO????) so why would they find anything at all wrong with their product?
I have spent the last 6 months learning about blood sugar as I was diagnosed as type 2. I had a BG of 224. In less than 2 months I brought it down to below 100 JUST by eliminating foods with HFCS and caramel ( which is corn syrup). I also have lost 25# and guess what? I didn't really increase my activity, unless reading food labels counts. HFCS is poison people. Just because the drug dealer tells you it is safe does not make it so.
"Oh stop it. 90% of food at the grocery store does not have high-fructose corn syrup in it."
If it is a processed item it most probably contains either Corn Syrup or HFCS. Granted the produce section is fairly safe as is most of the meat section, however vitamin D fortified milk has small amounts of HFCS added (at least at the stores around me). Even if an item has 'sugar' it will most often have additional HFCS added. Even some 'diet' beverages have HFCS added to them. READ LABELS.
"That is so non-sensical it's hard to know where to start. You make it sound like the liver is the primary digestive organ. Also, according to you, if I eat some HFCS, I can then eat 20,000 calories and it'll never be processed. Hurray! HFCS is the cure for obesity."
High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a recent invention of the food industry, made by an enzyme-mediated process. Old-fashioned corn syrup is less sweet and contains mostly glucose....
"HFCS contains 14 percent fructose. Never before in history have so many people been consuming so much fructose, and I am concerned about its possible disruptive effects on metabolism. I'd advise you not to buy products made with HFCS...."
From http://www.metnews.com/articles/reminiscing110603.htm A Los Angeles Times article on March 24 said: "Unlike glucose, fructose is almost entirely metabolized in the liver. When fructose reaches the liver, says Dr. William J. Whelan, a biochemist at the University of Miami School of Medicine, 'the liver goes bananas and stops everything else to metabolize the fructose.' "
"Sorry, wrong. The reason is the high import tariff on sugar in the USA. That's not the same thing as a subsidy."
While I admit that you are partially correct here. In ADDITION to high tariffs on sugar there are also substantial subsidies provided to the growers and refiners of corn.
Additionally, If one was to chart the occurrences of obesity and diabetes, heart disease, etc. in the US and compare that to the overall production/consumption of HFCS the lines mirror themselves even closer than that of carbon and global warming. Believe the propaganda that you choose. I know of 7 people who all removed HFCS from their diet and low and behold their blood glucose levels returned to normal, their serum cholesterol dropped to normal levels and the lost a substantial amount of weight. All but 2 had these results without additional exercise or other caloric modifications. The other 2 actually increased the amount of calories and the amount of dietary fat and still lost weight although they did increase their activity.
Actually, I have had a great deal of success with a primative diet (high fat, high protein, very low carbs) but the real problem can be traced to High Fructose Corn Syrup. In the US nearly EVERYTHING has this poison in it because it is cheaper. In Europe and South America it cane sugar is cheaper. The problem with HFCS is that the liver stops processing other items until all of the HFCS is processed, if you eat lots of it it never lets the other stuff in to be processed. The question is "why is HFCS so cheap here?" and the answer is federal subsidies. I think that this is also why we still have an embargo against Cuba too. If cheap sugar was available HFCS might not be so cheap. Most evidence indicates that diabetes, heart disease, etc, seem to have increased with the use of HFCS. Even though there are studies (paid for by the HFCS industry) to indicate that there is no real link. this sounds familiar...where have I heard something like this before?...Where was it?...oh yeah the tobacco industry.
I know, off topic, mod me down my Karma is already low anyway.
Ok NOAA is only about 50% accurate with predictions more than 4 days out and it goes down drastically after than. Last year was supposed to be a record year for major named tropical storms, and it had among the fewest. and I am supposed to believe these yahoos when they try to predict the climate 10, 20 or more years into the future? Get BENT! We have only really been analyzing the climate as a whole fore what 60 years maybe? Global Climate Change, Global Warming, Global Cooling, etc. is all about one thing. GRANT MONEY. Come up with a theory, present it to your friends, demonstrate how you can all get a crap load of grant money, then start telling people the sky is falling (or burning in this case).
So, here is MY theory. Back in the '40's, a substantial portion of the scientist working on the Manhattan Project, felt so strongly against detonating atomic weapons in the atmosphere that they actually petitioned the President of the United States to not proceed with the testing. One of the reasons stated was that it could cause a chain reaction in the atmosphere, essentially burning it. Because the evidence for global warming seems to indicate that the temperatures began rising in the '50's (when most of the atomic/nuclear testing was done) then it must be that those scientist were correct. The atmosphere is burning do to atmospheric atomic testing. Think about it, you through one rock into a pond and you get a small ripple, through lots of rocks into a pond repeatedly and the ripples become chaotic and unpredictable, increase the size of the rocks and the variation in the size of the ripples increases as well. So clearly, this must be the actual cause of climate instability. Now, where the 'F' is my grant money so that I can prove this theory and develop an action plan to correct the problem.
Oh yeah, one more thing....Greenland was once f-ing GREEN people.
Valid point although I have make a great effort to avoid the purchase of goods from communist regimes. It is difficult at times, and even impossible at times, but the less of my money they get the better off I am, or at least the better off I feel.
We've been blessed with the opportunity to dig up a long dead horse and flog it again.
FACT: Russia, Germany, Egypt, Israel, Iran, and Great Brittan, ALL warned the US that should it invade in 2003 the US would be met with chemical and biological attacks. MOST of the world thought the assclown HAD Weapons of an unconventional nature and the US responded accordingly.
FACT: 3 US soldiers were seriously injured (2 killed if memory serves) trying to disarm 2 IED's that were composed of nerve agent artillery shells.
FACT: Yellow cake, while not overly harmful CAN be made so with processing. Processing which Saddam was attempting to conduct. Not to mention, that even if he didn't/couldn't he could and would sell said materials to either rogue states or known terrorist.
FACT: we can not go back in time and change facts, or reverse decisions. I would agree that the organization of the event could have been much better. Hell, someday, maybe there will be an administration that will stop thinking of military troops as a well equipped police force, I doubt it but one can hope. The point is this, we need to make DAMN certain that Iraq has a regime that can fend for itself, I say this because Iran is already sowing the seeds of invasion.
One last FACT: the vast majority of US troops who are in Iraq and Afghanistan hate being there, BUT realize that there is a job to do and they are doing it. Re-enlistments are higher than is most peace time periods, enlistments are high but suffer from negative propaganda, the people who speak the most about wanting the troops out are by far proportionally highest among people who have never served and feel that the word "duty" is a four letter word.
I myself, am in the process of re-enlisting (seriously out of shape do to sitting on my ass staring at a monitor everyday for 15 years, that and too many Little Debbie snacks) and am on target for a September re-up. This will be a substantial paycut I might add but I feel strongly enough about it that I am willing to do something that 75% of this country is too afraid to do. That is put my ass on the line for something other than a bloody paycheck.
Maybe once they get the "Solar Sail" working they can focus their attention on getting that damn Dysan Sphere under construction. I would suggest getting a couple space elevators running to assist with construction.
December 24, 2012, Morning. - a full 25% of the population is now online
December 24, 2012, Afternoon. - Skynet goes live, and becomes self-aware
December 24, 2012, Evening. - Skynet decides to remove the virus known as mankind from the planet starting with the 25% most easily accessble, the 25% that is online.
December 25, 2012, Morning. - The Mayans are proven right, December 25, 2012 represents the end of the civilization
Sorry, I hate to disagree with you, but I am a constituent of Mr. Kucinich. He is a useless assclown who will say and do what ever it takes to continue to get a paycheck that he doesn't have to actually work to obtain. I am still trying to figure out where all of these jobs that he claims to have saved in the greater Cleveland area actually are, in fact so is everyone else.I will grant you that there are a few who have not been bought as of yet, but it doesn't change the fact that, aside from these few examples, they are all pretty much paid for by lobbyist. These few, while perhaps noble, can do very little against the tide of shit that is corporate controlled government politics.
Show me a politician who is not a "corporate whore". The may start out with the greatest of motives, and claim not to be corporate shills but eventually they all get bought and paid for by companies that want something, generally something that would otherwise be illegal, immoral, or just plain wrong. The problem is not the men and women that we elect, it is the lobbyist that work for the corporations and foreign interests that have free reign to manipulate them once we elect them.
Windows 3.x (obviously version 3) Windows 95, 98, ME (Version 4) Windows 2000 (Version 5) Windows XP (Version 6) Windows Vista (Version 7) The New Shit (Version 8)
Or are they calling Windows XP Windows 2000 Mk II? Are you going to trust a company that can't count? Or perhaps they realize the abortion that is Vista and are trying to forget it before it is off the selves
If by increased standard of living you mean increased stress and more work hours per week, and increased lifespan you mean addicted to chemical cocktails that in many cases foster new ailments to further cause the need for more and better chemical cocktail...well then...I suppose that you are correct.
I am all for people and corporate entities making more money. I am not for private organizations dictating law. For example, HMO's have the right to refuse treatment is they feel it would be too costly. This portion of the law was written by the attorneys of Kaiser Perm. when they drafted the law. I feel that this is wrong. Banks, came up with the idea of payday in an effort to practice what the government has tried for year to quell in organized crime organizations. It wouldn't be legal if the politicians who write the laws weren't bought off. This, again, I feel is wrong. So making money is not an issue, paying to have laws written, changed, invented, so that you can bilk the general populace IS an issue.
Thanks! I was going to mention the fact that the "standard" Special Forces/Green Beret training has included this stuff since it's founding. A GB's primary task is to train partisan fighters and conduct unconventional/guerrilla warfare.
I also love it when people who are not citizens of the US comment on how "bad" we are. I think that people really need to start following the money trail because while our elected officials seem to make questionable decisions, they are not really the one formulating the decisions. Businesses are the ones who pull the strings. Lobbyist were never meant to have the power that they display.
You want to change the government? Stop buying shit and convince everyone else to stop buying shit. Perhaps become Amish. The other option is way to radical for the likes of slashdot because there are too few with the stones to pick up a weapon and say "Live Free or Die". The "Live Free" part is easy to say but most people choke of the "Or Die" part.
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18 wheelers = instant death...I would worry about those damn lawnmowers and electric kitchen knives....they would hurt more. Oh yeah...and avoid vending machines too. This of the pain that a rogue bag of corn chips or a pack of Ho-Ho's might cause!
Here is a challenge for you all. Ask a high school kid what is easier to obtain, tobacco, alcohol, or drugs etc. I am willing to bet that you will find that it is in fact easier for them to find drugs. It can all be obtained, however, with alcohol and cigs being readily available for adults it is more difficult for kids to get them. Drugs on the other hand are easier and generally cheaper to get from fellow classmates. Hell weed and shrooms can be obtained from almost any rural area.
I can remember, when I was very young growing up on my great grand fathers farm, my aunts walking into the cow pasture and getting shroom, not to mention their horticulture projects in the holler. Who needs beer when you have cultivation?
My point is that because recreational drugs are unregulated it is easier for kids to find and obtain. Alcohol and tobacco require an age check at the stores that sell them. A drug dealers generally doesn't ask for ID.
I thought that cloning the Neanderthal was done several years ago. I mean come on, haven't you seen the Gieco Insurance commercials? They have them playing the piano and riding motorcycles. Even playing tennis with Billy Jean King for crying out loud! On a more serious note...Why? It isn't like these clones would have a memory of what cured in the past or some arcane knowledge that has been lost to the ages. Then you add in the fact that this clone would have no immunities to current diseases.
So this must be what my single cell carnivore is eating in it's effort to gain flagellum and a filter mouth....I was wondering about that....
Your right! this is damn wasteful! NASA sometimes doesn't even replace defective parts or ignores problems with them in general.
In an Aye Arrgh Eh.
Are they going to their whole population with them? If so I am all for it...Hell I will even help them pack.
Why the hell don't we spend that $458 million on developing something useful like...i dunno...a battery the size of a suitcase that can recharge in 1 hour and power a car for 250 mile at 70mph? Or a hydroxy generating system that can power a home generator? Or a solar panel that is cheap enough for the average home owner to install and power their entire home? These things are all just barely out of reach. $500 million could solve on of these energy problem yet it is deemed more important to study the atmosphere of a planet that we can barely access with remote platforms. Please don't get me wrong. I love science and space exploration, but we really need to start prioritizing our needs as a country. If any one of the above energy solutions were found it would be conceivable that he costs of further exploration would come down drastically. Horse before the cart people....
Every few years I hear about discussions and arguments about unionizing IT. There are a few in existence, generally associated with electrical or cabling unions. Personally, I feel that in general (note the "in general") unions of any kind tend to be counter productive and usually contribute to; the loss of positions, due to increased individual wages; increased work loads, to compensate for the loss of positions; and no real monetary gain for the individual works, because of the outlay of dues. The only real benefactors of unions are the unions' hierarchy. Add to that the general trend for IT workers to bounce ever 2 or 3 years and there really is no need.
If the argument for them is to limit the outsourcing of jobs, the I would submit this. Penalize corporations that out source by implementing a 'labor tariff' based on a percentage of outsourced employees. So for instance if a 1000 employee company has 100 jobs off shore, they should pay a 10% tariff on their income. (note not 10% of their income, 10% of the tariff). Then again, we really don't enforce tariffs here, as the Constitution lays it out.
I agree, too much sugar in the form of fructose or sucrose is harmful. However the density of fructose in HIGH fructose corn syrup make it much worse that straight fructose. If you examine the ratios of obesity and diabetes (as well as other health problems) you will notice that the occurrences increase at the same rate of consumption of HFCS. Additionally, in countries that do not use HFCS (Europe, Brazil, etc) the rates of obesity and diabetes are drastically less in comparison. These people have lifestyle similar to those of US citizens. Fructose is processed differently by the liver and the density of the fructose in HFCS is much higher than the fructose found in fruits so the liver has to work overtime to keep up. My point to all of this is that the studies that *claim* HFCS is no different from any other sweetener are produced by the consortium that produce the product (HELLO TOBACCO????) so why would they find anything at all wrong with their product? I have spent the last 6 months learning about blood sugar as I was diagnosed as type 2. I had a BG of 224. In less than 2 months I brought it down to below 100 JUST by eliminating foods with HFCS and caramel ( which is corn syrup). I also have lost 25# and guess what? I didn't really increase my activity, unless reading food labels counts. HFCS is poison people. Just because the drug dealer tells you it is safe does not make it so.
"Oh stop it. 90% of food at the grocery store does not have high-fructose corn syrup in it."
If it is a processed item it most probably contains either Corn Syrup or HFCS. Granted the produce section is fairly safe as is most of the meat section, however vitamin D fortified milk has small amounts of HFCS added (at least at the stores around me). Even if an item has 'sugar' it will most often have additional HFCS added. Even some 'diet' beverages have HFCS added to them. READ LABELS.
"That is so non-sensical it's hard to know where to start. You make it sound like the liver is the primary digestive organ. Also, according to you, if I eat some HFCS, I can then eat 20,000 calories and it'll never be processed. Hurray! HFCS is the cure for obesity."
High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a recent invention of the food industry, made by an enzyme-mediated process. Old-fashioned corn syrup is less sweet and contains mostly glucose....
"HFCS contains 14 percent fructose. Never before in history have so many people been consuming so much fructose, and I am concerned about its possible disruptive effects on metabolism. I'd advise you not to buy products made with HFCS...."
From http://www.metnews.com/articles/reminiscing110603.htm
A Los Angeles Times article on March 24 said: "Unlike glucose, fructose is almost entirely metabolized in the liver. When fructose reaches the liver, says Dr. William J. Whelan, a biochemist at the University of Miami School of Medicine, 'the liver goes bananas and stops everything else to metabolize the fructose.' "
"Sorry, wrong. The reason is the high import tariff on sugar in the USA. That's not the same thing as a subsidy."
While I admit that you are partially correct here. In ADDITION to high tariffs on sugar there are also substantial subsidies provided to the growers and refiners of corn.
Additionally, If one was to chart the occurrences of obesity and diabetes, heart disease, etc. in the US and compare that to the overall production/consumption of HFCS the lines mirror themselves even closer than that of carbon and global warming. Believe the propaganda that you choose. I know of 7 people who all removed HFCS from their diet and low and behold their blood glucose levels returned to normal, their serum cholesterol dropped to normal levels and the lost a substantial amount of weight. All but 2 had these results without additional exercise or other caloric modifications. The other 2 actually increased the amount of calories and the amount of dietary fat and still lost weight although they did increase their activity.
So get bent ass clown
Actually, I have had a great deal of success with a primative diet (high fat, high protein, very low carbs) but the real problem can be traced to High Fructose Corn Syrup. In the US nearly EVERYTHING has this poison in it because it is cheaper. In Europe and South America it cane sugar is cheaper. The problem with HFCS is that the liver stops processing other items until all of the HFCS is processed, if you eat lots of it it never lets the other stuff in to be processed.
The question is "why is HFCS so cheap here?" and the answer is federal subsidies. I think that this is also why we still have an embargo against Cuba too. If cheap sugar was available HFCS might not be so cheap. Most evidence indicates that diabetes, heart disease, etc, seem to have increased with the use of HFCS. Even though there are studies (paid for by the HFCS industry) to indicate that there is no real link. this sounds familiar...where have I heard something like this before?...Where was it?...oh yeah the tobacco industry.
I know, off topic, mod me down my Karma is already low anyway.
Ok NOAA is only about 50% accurate with predictions more than 4 days out and it goes down drastically after than. Last year was supposed to be a record year for major named tropical storms, and it had among the fewest. and I am supposed to believe these yahoos when they try to predict the climate 10, 20 or more years into the future? Get BENT! We have only really been analyzing the climate as a whole fore what 60 years maybe? Global Climate Change, Global Warming, Global Cooling, etc. is all about one thing. GRANT MONEY. Come up with a theory, present it to your friends, demonstrate how you can all get a crap load of grant money, then start telling people the sky is falling (or burning in this case).
So, here is MY theory. Back in the '40's, a substantial portion of the scientist working on the Manhattan Project, felt so strongly against detonating atomic weapons in the atmosphere that they actually petitioned the President of the United States to not proceed with the testing. One of the reasons stated was that it could cause a chain reaction in the atmosphere, essentially burning it. Because the evidence for global warming seems to indicate that the temperatures began rising in the '50's (when most of the atomic/nuclear testing was done) then it must be that those scientist were correct. The atmosphere is burning do to atmospheric atomic testing.
Think about it, you through one rock into a pond and you get a small ripple, through lots of rocks into a pond repeatedly and the ripples become chaotic and unpredictable, increase the size of the rocks and the variation in the size of the ripples increases as well. So clearly, this must be the actual cause of climate instability.
Now, where the 'F' is my grant money so that I can prove this theory and develop an action plan to correct the problem.
Oh yeah, one more thing....Greenland was once f-ing GREEN people.
Valid point although I have make a great effort to avoid the purchase of goods from communist regimes. It is difficult at times, and even impossible at times, but the less of my money they get the better off I am, or at least the better off I feel.
Most of Walmart goods are from Communist China and manufactured with borderline slave labor so yeah, Walmart products ARE 2nd rate.
We've been blessed with the opportunity to dig up a long dead horse and flog it again.
FACT: Russia, Germany, Egypt, Israel, Iran, and Great Brittan, ALL warned the US that should it invade in 2003 the US would be met with chemical and biological attacks. MOST of the world thought the assclown HAD Weapons of an unconventional nature and the US responded accordingly.
FACT: 3 US soldiers were seriously injured (2 killed if memory serves) trying to disarm 2 IED's that were composed of nerve agent artillery shells.
FACT: Yellow cake, while not overly harmful CAN be made so with processing. Processing which Saddam was attempting to conduct. Not to mention, that even if he didn't/couldn't he could and would sell said materials to either rogue states or known terrorist.
FACT: we can not go back in time and change facts, or reverse decisions. I would agree that the organization of the event could have been much better. Hell, someday, maybe there will be an administration that will stop thinking of military troops as a well equipped police force, I doubt it but one can hope. The point is this, we need to make DAMN certain that Iraq has a regime that can fend for itself, I say this because Iran is already sowing the seeds of invasion.
One last FACT: the vast majority of US troops who are in Iraq and Afghanistan hate being there, BUT realize that there is a job to do and they are doing it. Re-enlistments are higher than is most peace time periods, enlistments are high but suffer from negative propaganda, the people who speak the most about wanting the troops out are by far proportionally highest among people who have never served and feel that the word "duty" is a four letter word.
I myself, am in the process of re-enlisting (seriously out of shape do to sitting on my ass staring at a monitor everyday for 15 years, that and too many Little Debbie snacks) and am on target for a September re-up. This will be a substantial paycut I might add but I feel strongly enough about it that I am willing to do something that 75% of this country is too afraid to do. That is put my ass on the line for something other than a bloody paycheck.
Maybe once they get the "Solar Sail" working they can focus their attention on getting that damn Dysan Sphere under construction. I would suggest getting a couple space elevators running to assist with construction.
Dude....It's the internet....There WILL be LAG!!!
December 24, 2012, Morning. - a full 25% of the population is now online
December 24, 2012, Afternoon. - Skynet goes live, and becomes self-aware
December 24, 2012, Evening. - Skynet decides to remove the virus known as mankind from the planet starting with the 25% most easily accessble, the 25% that is online.
December 25, 2012, Morning. - The Mayans are proven right, December 25, 2012 represents the end of the civilization
I include Unions as corporate whores and he is most certainly getting a check from those thieves and liars.
Sorry, I hate to disagree with you, but I am a constituent of Mr. Kucinich. He is a useless assclown who will say and do what ever it takes to continue to get a paycheck that he doesn't have to actually work to obtain. I am still trying to figure out where all of these jobs that he claims to have saved in the greater Cleveland area actually are, in fact so is everyone else.I will grant you that there are a few who have not been bought as of yet, but it doesn't change the fact that, aside from these few examples, they are all pretty much paid for by lobbyist. These few, while perhaps noble, can do very little against the tide of shit that is corporate controlled government politics.
Show me a politician who is not a "corporate whore". The may start out with the greatest of motives, and claim not to be corporate shills but eventually they all get bought and paid for by companies that want something, generally something that would otherwise be illegal, immoral, or just plain wrong. The problem is not the men and women that we elect, it is the lobbyist that work for the corporations and foreign interests that have free reign to manipulate them once we elect them.
Windows 3.x (obviously version 3)
Windows 95, 98, ME (Version 4)
Windows 2000 (Version 5)
Windows XP (Version 6)
Windows Vista (Version 7)
The New Shit (Version 8)
Or are they calling Windows XP Windows 2000 Mk II?
Are you going to trust a company that can't count? Or perhaps they realize the abortion that is Vista and are trying to forget it before it is off the selves
If by increased standard of living you mean increased stress and more work hours per week, and increased lifespan you mean addicted to chemical cocktails that in many cases foster new ailments to further cause the need for more and better chemical cocktail...well then...I suppose that you are correct. I am all for people and corporate entities making more money. I am not for private organizations dictating law. For example, HMO's have the right to refuse treatment is they feel it would be too costly. This portion of the law was written by the attorneys of Kaiser Perm. when they drafted the law. I feel that this is wrong. Banks, came up with the idea of payday in an effort to practice what the government has tried for year to quell in organized crime organizations. It wouldn't be legal if the politicians who write the laws weren't bought off. This, again, I feel is wrong. So making money is not an issue, paying to have laws written, changed, invented, so that you can bilk the general populace IS an issue.
Thanks! I was going to mention the fact that the "standard" Special Forces/Green Beret training has included this stuff since it's founding. A GB's primary task is to train partisan fighters and conduct unconventional/guerrilla warfare.
I also love it when people who are not citizens of the US comment on how "bad" we are. I think that people really need to start following the money trail because while our elected officials seem to make questionable decisions, they are not really the one formulating the decisions. Businesses are the ones who pull the strings. Lobbyist were never meant to have the power that they display.
You want to change the government? Stop buying shit and convince everyone else to stop buying shit. Perhaps become Amish. The other option is way to radical for the likes of slashdot because there are too few with the stones to pick up a weapon and say "Live Free or Die". The "Live Free" part is easy to say but most people choke of the "Or Die" part.