If SimCity 5 is NOT an urban simulator, then why in the hell are they calling it SimCity and giving it a sequel number of 5, hence the title, SIMCITY 5?!
"Oh no sir, it's not a Cadillac. It's actually a Yugo, but were calling it a Cadillac, and the newest version at that. Want to buy it?"
Anyways, I'm almost certain that there will be a severe backlash once people plunk down the $$ and find out that what they bought is ANYTHING but SimCity. This is a horrible idea, and I can't believe that Maxis would make such a bad decision.
And what on Earth could make them choose Tilted Mill for the task of creating a new sequel to the SimCity series?! It's like tasking Afghanistan with engineering first the Mission To Mars.
Blaspheming sacrilegious assclowns. May their flagrant desecration of the almighty SimCity be punished with poor sales, scathing reviews, and a thunderstorm of backlash.
This sounds strangely like what Universal Studios and Disneyland do:
Make money from the long waits in lines by charging people to cut to the head of the line.
In effect, you are making money by providing poorer customer service.
Which would you choose? Spend money keeping customers happy (and making money from repeat business as a result of good customer service), or make money from crappy service (and saving money from keeping them happy)
Buena Vista - A film studio. Monte Vista - A high school in Danville, CA. F-16 VISTA - A variant of the Lockheed-Martin F-16 fighter aircraft. Dodge / Plymouth Colt Vista, a compact MPV licensed from Mitsubishi. Toyota Vista - A passenger car produced by Toyota until 2003. Vista Cruiser, a station wagon produced by Oldsmobile until 1977. Thomas Vista, a school bus produced by Thomas Built Buses until 1998. Vista Professional Outdoor Lighting - Manufacturer of low voltage outdoor lighting systems.
Now, in relation to TV/Video: VistaVision, a 35mm motion picture film format.
And, in the realm of SOFTWARE: Vista and VistaPro, Amiga 3D landscape generation software.
Now all we need is a bunch of over-religious nutters telling me that the skin on my ass is a child that hasn't been born, yet is entitled to all the rights of an individual.....
Maybe I'll even get to use the "Stem cells are people MY ASS!" line, and actually be correct on BOTH sides of the issue at the same time!
Not only can he stop P2P, cure cancer, teach your dog Latin, and leap tall buildings in a single bound, but he also has a really cool bridge in San Francisco to sell you!
Why not convert heat into electricity by using a highly efficient thermocouple, and convert sound waves into electricity by using some kind of pressure-wave transducer?
What's more is that with a thermocouple, you can utilize the cold side as a sort of cooling/refrigeration system.
Man, for wasting $2M, someone should slap the crap out of this idiot and say "Bad scientist! No grants for YOU!"
BTW, is it even practical to convert ambient sound waves into useable amounts of electricity?
1. Spider-Man web shooters. 2. A More Efficient beer bong. 3. Penis enlarging pills. 4. Larger breast implants. 5. Better tasting malt liquor. 6. A better, more gripping "Reality TV" show. 7. More comfortable prisons, because doing Hard Time is just -oh so- hard. 8. Protesting for the sake of protesting. 9. Spending billions of tax dollars to build a bridge to nowhere. 10. American Idol. 11. Beauty pageants. 12. Porn, porn, and more porn. 13. Making porn more readily available. 14. Viagra. 15. Rogaine. 16. Giving Illegal Immigrants a free pass into the United States. 17. Paris Hilton. 18. Trying to get you IPod "Just Right" instead of finishing your essay on the importance of education. 19. Second Life and World of Warcraft. 20. Developing a cheaper, low carb beer that tastes great and is less filling. 21. Making better videos for YouTube. 22. Devloping technology that allows you to drive faster and safer through traffic while talking on your cell phone, checking your email on your Blackberry, and catch the lastest and hottest music videos on your dash mounted LCD screen. 23. Perfecting the "Keg Stand".
-.....cut to..... 1,995,263. More efficient engines. 1,995,264. An inexpensive, efficient fusion reactor. 1,995,265. Manned exploration of the solar system. 1,995,266. College curriculums that contain field-relevent studies, rather than including irrelevent ones. 1,995,267. Colonization of the moon. 1,995,268. Colonization of suitable planets. 1,995,269. Manned exploration of space. 1,995,270. Social attitudes that create the desire to learn more, rather than to smoke pot, inhale potato chips, and play video games all day. 1,995,271. Taking technology out of video games and putting it into things that actually matter. 1,995,272. More efficient treatments for cancer. 1,995,273. A cure for AIDS. 1,995,274. Practical solutions to counter global warming. 1,995,275. Understanding the importance of farmers and agriculture to human society, rather than ignoring them as "redneck idiots". 1,995,276. Explore the secrets of the Universe. -.....End List.....
Wow. I gues I really have my priorities out of order.
1000 suns? Why not give everybody the straight story and give a comparison of ONE SUN to ONE CELL?
Chances are, no consumer is going to have 1000 mirrors focusing on ONE cell, only massive solar arrays will.
So, if the cell really is as efficient as they say, each cell should be 40% efficient when it has ONE sun focused on it.
Man, more and more often are scientific claims and reports starting to read like annual corporate reports: Just alot of fancy crap designed to make an insignificant step appear to be an Earth-shattering technological achievment.
BTW, what good is 40% efficiency if you have to focus 1000 suns onto it? I take it this is only for solar arrays AND NOT consumer applications.
- It is *MY* belief that the Bible, and religion in general, has been hijacked by nutjobs who have bastardized and perverted the Bible and religious teachings into things that they are not.
Keep in mind, following the Ten Commandments and the Bible DO NOT make you a religious nutter. They just make you more polite, and generally more pleasant to be around. It's when religion gets taken out of context, exploited, and contorted into something far different than what it was meant to be do people become the religious extremists that we have today. This goes for pretty much ANY religion, not just Christianity.
Scientology is one exception: It just stupid no matter how you look at it, drunk or sober. -
My M14 (technically an M1A1, but is just the same as an M14 without the fire selector) has great knockdown power, but weighs so damn much with 2-20rnd mags in a J-clip that it is wholly inappropriate and impractical, to use in a tactical assault application..223 is pretty good too, but, just as you said, lives and dies on velocity. Both will incapacitate an enemy, but the.308 will more likely kill them than wound them.
One of the really great benefits to the.223 is that after it penetrates the target, it will tumble on it's way into the target much like a football rolling across the ground, causing severe internal injuries that are harder to fix.
But on your comments about barrel length, you are exactly right: Barrels are wayyy too short to get the most out of the powder charge. My guess is that a shorter barrel is better for tactical applications (SWAT, building entry,) in tight areas where freedom of movement is restricted. Plus, with a shorter barrel, you could get a faster rate of fire, since the bullet would spend a shorter amount of time in the barrel, allowing the bolt to move back and eject the spent round without blowback caused by the gasses being trapped behind a bullet that hasn't left the barrel yet. With a shorter barrel, the bullet spends less time, allowing gasses to escape out the muzzle before the bolt unlocks and the breech opens. Weight is also saved, but calso be controlled by different barrel types (i.e. stainless steel or chrome moly and chrome liners).
More rounds of.223 can be carried by a soldier, but they will be less effective at longer ranges, with reduced stopping power, but cause greater internal damage due to the tumbling effect..308 is more effective at longer ranges and packs more stopping power, but is irritatingly heavy when carried in large amounds, and the physically larger round means a slower rate of fire and greater recoil than a.223. Magazines also take up alot of space.
Overall, I would definitely prefer a.223 for a tactical application, such as close-range sniping or tactical assaults, but for longer-range fighting and sniping, I would go with a.308. Both incapacitate, but the.223 weighs *MUCH* less, has less recoil, and can be carried in greater quantities. The.308 has excellent stopping power, but weighs alot. But again, the number on factor appears: COST vs. benefit. This is where the.223 wins out.
----- BTW, have you heard of the.50 "Fat Mac"? It's a wildcatter, but has pretty damn high muzzle velocity for a.50 cal round: In excess of 3400 fps.
I would like to ask Mr. Elgan to respect my "Bill Of Whiners" that requires people who whine too much to be considerate of everybody else and shut the hell up.
There are few things more irritating than people who whine about too many blinking lights.
Considering that civilians WERE trained as soldiers, they were just as much fair game as the Japanese Imperial Army. I don't know why ignorant bleeding heat idiots make the claim that it killed "innocent civilians", when those civilians were being being given combat training to kill. Yes, both children (many appear to be as young as 6) AND women were being trained with weapons and taught how to kill the enemy.
When you give civilians combat training in how to kill, they are no longer civilians, and become fair game.
Hopefully, Japan has learned a lesson in starting fights: If you don't want to suffer the consequences of a fight, then don't start one.
I have heard *ALOT* or complaints about the.223 rounds from soldiers in Iraq. Basically, you can put a couple shots into a guy and he still won't go down..223 bullets are extremely small bullets with a small charge, so they have little kinetic energy (when compared to the old standard.308) when they strike a target. The smaller the bullet, the less energy is tranfered to the surrounding tissue upon hitting the target. Bullets don't kill by cutting through tissue - They kill because of the transfer of kinetic energy to surrounding tissue upon impact. A 55g.223 round has 935 ft-lbs. of energy at 100yds, while a.308 has 2301 ft-lbs. Plus, the.308 uses a much larger powder charge. It's no wonder why the 7.62x39 round used by terrorists is no match for the.223 bullets we use. In this case, bigger really is better.
However, when it comes to bulletproof vests, the.22 is just as dangerous. While it is a relatively low powered round, the low surface area of the bullet allows it to more easily pass through woven-fiber body armor. Of course, body armor and bullet size is a moot point when you shoot someone in the head or the heart, and any decent vest will have a hardened steel or titamium alloy trauma plate over the heart/lung area.
In all honesty, stopping a rifle round is going to be *ALOT* harder than stopping a pistol round, due the the fact that rifle rounds are pointed, travel at higher speeds, and are much heavier.
I like my M14. Screw 5.56..... If I am going to shoot something, I want to stop it and drop it, not just piss it off.
I've got a gun that shoots 7.62x54. That a big honkin' round! Good thing AK-47's don't shoot it, becuase it is already a frighteningly scary shot (when seen from the side), and it is the reason the Mosin-Nagant M39 got the nickname the "Russian Dragon". That gun kills on BOTH ends!
Electronics engineers are being replaced with marketing weasels. Plain and simple. It's about time that companies who try to dress up their product with phony specs have their feet held to the fire.
Does the transistor pixel have the ability to display millions of colors or not? That's not a difficult question to answer.
More baloney from "Marketing Engineers":
"180 degree viewing angle"
- Nobody can see anything on any monitor. At 180 degrees, the viewing surface becomes a single plane and disappears. Most LCD monitors have a bezel that frames the monitor, so the viewing screen is hidden below the bezel. The only thing you can see from a 180 degree viewing angle is the side of the monitor, which is not very high on my list of Interesting Things.
"High image quality, even when viewed from any angle"
- Even those screens look horrible when viewed at and angle,. The image darkens dramatically when viwed at an angle, and you still have the significant darkness, gamma errors, and color inversion when viewed from any angle.
"22 inch screen. 20 inches viewable."
- How big is the damn screen? 20" or 22"?! Why do manufacturers measure the bezel AND the screen, and then give that measurement as the screen size? The bezel is NOT the screen and the screen is NOT the bezel. Screen size is the glass part and the bezel is the pastic part that surrounds the glass part. It's infuriatingly amazing how engineers get that part wrong when they write up the specs. SCREEN = GLASS PART THAT HAS SHOWS PICTURES. BEZEL = PLASTIC PART AROUND GLASS PART. If someone askes what the square footage of your house is, do you give them the area of your land contained within your property line, or the actual square footage of your house? Monitors are a little different, since the plastic bezel is pretty much useless in terms of function, yet land property can be used for a myriad of other things. Basically, what they are telling you is that you have an extra 2" of crap on the monitor.
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If SimCity 5 is NOT an urban simulator, then why in the hell are they calling it SimCity and giving it a sequel number of 5, hence the title, SIMCITY 5?!
"Oh no sir, it's not a Cadillac. It's actually a Yugo, but were calling it a Cadillac, and the newest version at that. Want to buy it?"
Anyways, I'm almost certain that there will be a severe backlash once people plunk down the $$ and find out that what they bought is ANYTHING but SimCity. This is a horrible idea, and I can't believe that Maxis would make such a bad decision.
And what on Earth could make them choose Tilted Mill for the task of creating a new sequel to the SimCity series?! It's like tasking Afghanistan with engineering first the Mission To Mars.
Blaspheming sacrilegious assclowns. May their flagrant desecration of the almighty SimCity be punished with poor sales, scathing reviews, and a thunderstorm of backlash.
This sounds strangely like what Universal Studios and Disneyland do:
Make money from the long waits in lines by charging people to cut to the head of the line.
In effect, you are making money by providing poorer customer service.
Which would you choose? Spend money keeping customers happy (and making money from repeat business as a result of good customer service), or make money from crappy service (and saving money from keeping them happy)
Hmmmmm.....
Buena Vista - A film studio.
Monte Vista - A high school in Danville, CA.
F-16 VISTA - A variant of the Lockheed-Martin F-16 fighter aircraft.
Dodge / Plymouth Colt Vista, a compact MPV licensed from Mitsubishi.
Toyota Vista - A passenger car produced by Toyota until 2003.
Vista Cruiser, a station wagon produced by Oldsmobile until 1977.
Thomas Vista, a school bus produced by Thomas Built Buses until 1998.
Vista Professional Outdoor Lighting - Manufacturer of low voltage outdoor lighting systems.
Now, in relation to TV/Video:
VistaVision, a 35mm motion picture film format.
And, in the realm of SOFTWARE:
Vista and VistaPro, Amiga 3D landscape generation software.
The stupid half-wit IS NOT original.
Now all we need is a bunch of over-religious nutters telling me that the skin on my ass is a child that hasn't been born, yet is entitled to all the rights of an individual.....
Maybe I'll even get to use the "Stem cells are people MY ASS!" line, and actually be correct on BOTH sides of the issue at the same time!
Not only can he stop P2P, cure cancer, teach your dog Latin, and leap tall buildings in a single bound, but he also has a really cool bridge in San Francisco to sell you!
Why not convert heat into electricity by using a highly efficient thermocouple, and convert sound waves into electricity by using some kind of pressure-wave transducer?
What's more is that with a thermocouple, you can utilize the cold side as a sort of cooling/refrigeration system.
Man, for wasting $2M, someone should slap the crap out of this idiot and say "Bad scientist! No grants for YOU!"
BTW, is it even practical to convert ambient sound waves into useable amounts of electricity?
I'll bet it's a pirate radio station blasting They Might Be Giants' "The Sun is a mass of incandescent gas....."
If Ballmer makes it into the McCain Administration, Left-leaning states will be referred to as the "Blue States of Death".
I call Patent!
Things Essential For The Survival Of Humanity:
.....cut to..... .....End List.....
1. Spider-Man web shooters.
2. A More Efficient beer bong.
3. Penis enlarging pills.
4. Larger breast implants.
5. Better tasting malt liquor.
6. A better, more gripping "Reality TV" show.
7. More comfortable prisons, because doing Hard Time is just -oh so- hard.
8. Protesting for the sake of protesting.
9. Spending billions of tax dollars to build a bridge to nowhere.
10. American Idol.
11. Beauty pageants.
12. Porn, porn, and more porn.
13. Making porn more readily available.
14. Viagra.
15. Rogaine.
16. Giving Illegal Immigrants a free pass into the United States.
17. Paris Hilton.
18. Trying to get you IPod "Just Right" instead of finishing your essay on the importance of education.
19. Second Life and World of Warcraft.
20. Developing a cheaper, low carb beer that tastes great and is less filling.
21. Making better videos for YouTube.
22. Devloping technology that allows you to drive faster and safer through traffic while talking on your cell phone, checking your email on your Blackberry, and catch the lastest and hottest music videos on your dash mounted LCD screen.
23. Perfecting the "Keg Stand".
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1,995,263. More efficient engines.
1,995,264. An inexpensive, efficient fusion reactor.
1,995,265. Manned exploration of the solar system.
1,995,266. College curriculums that contain field-relevent studies, rather than including irrelevent ones.
1,995,267. Colonization of the moon.
1,995,268. Colonization of suitable planets.
1,995,269. Manned exploration of space.
1,995,270. Social attitudes that create the desire to learn more, rather than to smoke pot, inhale potato chips, and play video games all day.
1,995,271. Taking technology out of video games and putting it into things that actually matter.
1,995,272. More efficient treatments for cancer.
1,995,273. A cure for AIDS.
1,995,274. Practical solutions to counter global warming.
1,995,275. Understanding the importance of farmers and agriculture to human society, rather than ignoring them as "redneck idiots".
1,995,276. Explore the secrets of the Universe.
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Wow. I gues I really have my priorities out of order.
"Duuude! You're gettin' fired!"
1000 suns? Why not give everybody the straight story and give a comparison of ONE SUN to ONE CELL?
Chances are, no consumer is going to have 1000 mirrors focusing on ONE cell, only massive solar arrays will.
So, if the cell really is as efficient as they say, each cell should be 40% efficient when it has ONE sun focused on it.
Man, more and more often are scientific claims and reports starting to read like annual corporate reports: Just alot of fancy crap designed to make an insignificant step appear to be an Earth-shattering technological achievment.
BTW, what good is 40% efficiency if you have to focus 1000 suns onto it? I take it this is only for solar arrays AND NOT consumer applications.
JESUS SAVE ME..... .....from your followers.
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It is *MY* belief that the Bible, and religion in general, has been hijacked by nutjobs who have bastardized and perverted the Bible and religious teachings into things that they are not.
Keep in mind, following the Ten Commandments and the Bible DO NOT make you a religious nutter. They just make you more polite, and generally more pleasant to be around. It's when religion gets taken out of context, exploited, and contorted into something far different than what it was meant to be do people become the religious extremists that we have today. This goes for pretty much ANY religion, not just Christianity.
Scientology is one exception: It just stupid no matter how you look at it, drunk or sober.
-
::groan::
I think that this "idea" is little more than a half-baked potato.
My M14 (technically an M1A1, but is just the same as an M14 without the fire selector) has great knockdown power, but weighs so damn much with 2-20rnd mags in a J-clip that it is wholly inappropriate and impractical, to use in a tactical assault application. .223 is pretty good too, but, just as you said, lives and dies on velocity. Both will incapacitate an enemy, but the .308 will more likely kill them than wound them.
.223 is that after it penetrates the target, it will tumble on it's way into the target much like a football rolling across the ground, causing severe internal injuries that are harder to fix.
.223 can be carried by a soldier, but they will be less effective at longer ranges, with reduced stopping power, but cause greater internal damage due to the tumbling effect. .308 is more effective at longer ranges and packs more stopping power, but is irritatingly heavy when carried in large amounds, and the physically larger round means a slower rate of fire and greater recoil than a .223. Magazines also take up alot of space.
.223 for a tactical application, such as close-range sniping or tactical assaults, but for longer-range fighting and sniping, I would go with a .308. Both incapacitate, but the .223 weighs *MUCH* less, has less recoil, and can be carried in greater quantities. The .308 has excellent stopping power, but weighs alot. But again, the number on factor appears: COST vs. benefit. This is where the .223 wins out.
.50 "Fat Mac"? It's a wildcatter, but has pretty damn high muzzle velocity for a .50 cal round: In excess of 3400 fps.
One of the really great benefits to the
But on your comments about barrel length, you are exactly right: Barrels are wayyy too short to get the most out of the powder charge. My guess is that a shorter barrel is better for tactical applications (SWAT, building entry,) in tight areas where freedom of movement is restricted. Plus, with a shorter barrel, you could get a faster rate of fire, since the bullet would spend a shorter amount of time in the barrel, allowing the bolt to move back and eject the spent round without blowback caused by the gasses being trapped behind a bullet that hasn't left the barrel yet. With a shorter barrel, the bullet spends less time, allowing gasses to escape out the muzzle before the bolt unlocks and the breech opens. Weight is also saved, but calso be controlled by different barrel types (i.e. stainless steel or chrome moly and chrome liners).
More rounds of
Overall, I would definitely prefer a
-----
BTW, have you heard of the
I would like to ask Mr. Elgan to respect my "Bill Of Whiners" that requires people who whine too much to be considerate of everybody else and shut the hell up.
There are few things more irritating than people who whine about too many blinking lights.
Microsoft Windows.
Considering that civilians WERE trained as soldiers, they were just as much fair game as the Japanese Imperial Army. I don't know why ignorant bleeding heat idiots make the claim that it killed "innocent civilians", when those civilians were being being given combat training to kill. Yes, both children (many appear to be as young as 6) AND women were being trained with weapons and taught how to kill the enemy.
When you give civilians combat training in how to kill, they are no longer civilians, and become fair game.
Hopefully, Japan has learned a lesson in starting fights: If you don't want to suffer the consequences of a fight, then don't start one.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: NO APOLOGIES. EVER.
Sorry... I meant P226R 40 S&W.
You're welcome!
A buddy of mine just bought his Sig P225R and absolutely loves it.
Wow.
That is the BEST sig I have ever read on SlashDot!
You mean, a humungous fungus among us?
I have heard *ALOT* or complaints about the .223 rounds from soldiers in Iraq. Basically, you can put a couple shots into a guy and he still won't go down. .223 bullets are extremely small bullets with a small charge, so they have little kinetic energy (when compared to the old standard .308) when they strike a target. The smaller the bullet, the less energy is tranfered to the surrounding tissue upon hitting the target. Bullets don't kill by cutting through tissue - They kill because of the transfer of kinetic energy to surrounding tissue upon impact. A 55g .223 round has 935 ft-lbs. of energy at 100yds, while a .308 has 2301 ft-lbs. Plus, the .308 uses a much larger powder charge. It's no wonder why the 7.62x39 round used by terrorists is no match for the .223 bullets we use. In this case, bigger really is better.
.22 is just as dangerous. While it is a relatively low powered round, the low surface area of the bullet allows it to more easily pass through woven-fiber body armor. Of course, body armor and bullet size is a moot point when you shoot someone in the head or the heart, and any decent vest will have a hardened steel or titamium alloy trauma plate over the heart/lung area.
However, when it comes to bulletproof vests, the
In all honesty, stopping a rifle round is going to be *ALOT* harder than stopping a pistol round, due the the fact that rifle rounds are pointed, travel at higher speeds, and are much heavier.
I like my M14. Screw 5.56..... If I am going to shoot something, I want to stop it and drop it, not just piss it off.
I've got a gun that shoots 7.62x54. That a big honkin' round! Good thing AK-47's don't shoot it, becuase it is already a frighteningly scary shot (when seen from the side), and it is the reason the Mosin-Nagant M39 got the nickname the "Russian Dragon". That gun kills on BOTH ends!
Electronics engineers are being replaced with marketing weasels. Plain and simple. It's about time that companies who try to dress up their product with phony specs have their feet held to the fire.
Does the transistor pixel have the ability to display millions of colors or not? That's not a difficult question to answer.
More baloney from "Marketing Engineers":
"180 degree viewing angle"
- Nobody can see anything on any monitor. At 180 degrees, the viewing surface becomes a single plane and disappears. Most LCD monitors have a bezel that frames the monitor, so the viewing screen is hidden below the bezel. The only thing you can see from a 180 degree viewing angle is the side of the monitor, which is not very high on my list of Interesting Things.
"High image quality, even when viewed from any angle"
- Even those screens look horrible when viewed at and angle,. The image darkens dramatically when viwed at an angle, and you still have the significant darkness, gamma errors, and color inversion when viewed from any angle.
"22 inch screen. 20 inches viewable."
- How big is the damn screen? 20" or 22"?! Why do manufacturers measure the bezel AND the screen, and then give that measurement as the screen size? The bezel is NOT the screen and the screen is NOT the bezel. Screen size is the glass part and the bezel is the pastic part that surrounds the glass part. It's infuriatingly amazing how engineers get that part wrong when they write up the specs. SCREEN = GLASS PART THAT HAS SHOWS PICTURES. BEZEL = PLASTIC PART AROUND GLASS PART. If someone askes what the square footage of your house is, do you give them the area of your land contained within your property line, or the actual square footage of your house? Monitors are a little different, since the plastic bezel is pretty much useless in terms of function, yet land property can be used for a myriad of other things. Basically, what they are telling you is that you have an extra 2" of crap on the monitor.
Either go out of business, or quadruple the advertising time.
Al Gore and Dianne Feinstein have done to science what Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson have done to religion:
BASTARDIZE AND PERVERT IT INTO A POLITICAL IDIOLOGY! ----- (Something both should never be!)
BOTH want money, BOTH want publicity, BOTH want political power, and BOTH think they know ".....what's best for us."