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Aneristic Illusions / Re: ATTN, Von Zwietracht & other libertariantards

« on: May 02, 2013, 09:46:29 pm »

So the question really is, "What are your goals?"

This. So very much this.

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Apple Zone / Re: This game is awesome!

« on: May 02, 2013, 09:38:13 pm »

OH MY GOD IT'S A FUCKING DRAGON SHIT SHIT SHIT

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Apple Zone / Re: This game is awesome!

« on: May 02, 2013, 09:37:54 pm »

Also, listening to the Welcome to Night Vale podcast is probably not the best way to play this game. :P

Are you kidding? Sounds like a BLAST.

Cainad,
listens to Night Vale in the shower, with the lights off




Also, this game is better than all the games.

I have eaten 216118 candies, have a lvl 6 flaming sword, have tossed 1000 candies on the ground (nothing seems to happen after the first 100), and am receiving 100 lollipops per second (seems to max out at 100000; I've planted 300000 with no increase in lollipoppage), and I get 8 candies per second.

Current stage is Castle's Keep...

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Apple Zone / Re: Open Bar VII: written by George Lucas!

« on: May 02, 2013, 09:28:44 pm »

Rock the fuck on, Suu! If anyone belongs in an internship like that, it's you.

And your prof is a superhero for that letter of rec.


I'm in the process of throwing resumes at various job openings and internships. My brain is so not ready to deal with post-college life.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: ATTN, Von Zwietracht & other libertariantards

« on: May 01, 2013, 07:04:11 pm »

The best part is when Randroids insist that businesses will naturally pursue rational self-interest and implement self-regulatory policies that serve them in the long run.

And we all laugh and laugh and laugh until we all puke from a poisoned water supply, or something.

Google "Love Canal".  That is what unregulated industry does in "it's own self interest".

Ack.

 

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: ATTN, Von Zwietracht & other libertariantards

« on: May 01, 2013, 06:55:48 pm »

What I was talking about was this:

I spent 5.4 million dollars over the last 5 years on safety & containment alone, to turn a death trap into a safe place to work and live near.

We had two disasters last month, including a 1500C burn-through on a kiln.  No personnel were injured.  Nothing was released from the plant.  All the backup systems and fire suppression equipment worked, because regulations demand that I MAINTAIN those systems that I had installed, again, due to regulation.  The fire department uses my plant for training on CSE rescues, because we invited them in.  We ASK Osha and the fire marshall to come in and review us.

Contrast this with the recent explosion in Texas, which was an example of what happens when regulations are not enforced.  Improper construction.  Failure to sequester chemicals.  NO firefighting equipment.  No escape plan.  No community notification system.  And the fire department all got injured or killed because they had no idea what they were heading into.

Implimenting regulations and then following them is expensive...But not as expensive as NOT doing so.

The best part is when Randroids insist that businesses will naturally pursue rational self-interest and implement self-regulatory policies that serve them in the long run.

And we all laugh and laugh and laugh until we all puke from a poisoned water supply, or something.

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Apple Zone / Re: Open Bar VII: written by George Lucas!

« on: May 01, 2013, 06:49:34 pm »

Well, I am utterly amazed.

My plant just got rated as "outstanding" by OSHA, and they have asked permission to use photographs of the plant as the "good example".

Which means my philosophy of "disasters should mean money, not lives" has paid off.

I'd call that a pretty big victory.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: ATTN, Von Zwietracht & other libertariantards

« on: May 01, 2013, 06:05:00 pm »

The thing that I find highly amusing about most Libertarians (aside from pretty much everything) is that they holler and howl about deregulation, the free market, and ending social welfare, but seem to have no problem with the magnitudes-larger issue of corporate welfare and a bloated and unnecessary military budget that funds endless unjust invasions which, one would think, would run a little contrary to Libertarian ideology, that is unless what they mean is liberty is only good for Americans.

Speaking as a small business owner, tax breaks and subsidies for corporations don't do fuck-all for the little guy.

Regulate the fuck out of corporations, scale back military spending to no more than a tenth of the total US budget, limit campaign funding and make all funding public, terminate corporate subsidies and bailouts, reduce the burdens on small businesses, and expand the social infrastructure/safety net, including education and health care, and we'll have my Libertarian dream.

Speaking for my industry, deregulation kills.  Not a metaphor.

No kidding.

I think it was you who said, roughly, that total deregulation is the fastest track to a completely un-free market. Government regulation is not the biggest threat to economic freedom (except in the sense of big business stacking the political deck against potential competitors).

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Apple Zone / Re: Open Bar VII: written by George Lucas!

« on: May 01, 2013, 05:40:34 pm »

And then I realized it isn't even due until next Monday and I could have held off, giving me time to walk to school, which now I don't have time to do because I thought I needed to finish my homework. 

School is such a pile of butts. I can't wait to get out and deal with normal, workaday-type mind-frazzling stress.

Then I'll regret it and wish I was back in school. But whatever, I'll burn that bridge when I get to it.

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Apple Zone / Re: The biggest, douchiest, first world problem you will ever read.

« on: May 01, 2013, 05:29:42 pm »

Also, this is neither the biggest nor douchiest 1st world problem.

THIS is:

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/100735-bp-ceo-id-like-my-life-back

That came when he was asked by reporters about how he would respond to residents of Louisiana.

"The first thing to say is 'I'm sorry,'" Hayward said. "We're sorry for the massive disruption it's caused their lives. There's no one who wants this over more than I do. I would like my life back."

Your razor-sharp memory for this kind of shit helps myopic dorks like me keep perspective.

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Apple Zone / Re: Look, all I've been trying to say is...

« on: May 01, 2013, 08:17:16 am »

There's a dimly lit little space in the mind, right between "getting" the joke and actually laughing about it. No shit, this is science. It's the reason so many people find puns unbearable: puns often hit the "get it" spot but not the laughter spot.

But the REAL Joke just kind of squats in that dark little space and says horrible things to your brain. It rattles back and forth, and it won't stop until you laugh hard enough.

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Apple Zone / Re: The biggest, douchiest, first world problem you will ever read.

« on: May 01, 2013, 06:56:42 am »

Three years later, we still struggle mightily with a boy who's fiercely strong-willed and seems to inherently know that crying pushes our buttons.

NO SHIT? Well isn't that just a big fat fucking surprise!

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Apple Zone / Re: Open Bar VII: written by George Lucas!

« on: May 01, 2013, 06:46:32 am »

Well FUCK that guy with a ten-foot pole of Not Fucking him.

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Apple Zone / Re: NIGEL, FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

« on: April 30, 2013, 11:46:31 pm »

PD (the WHOLE THING) supports separatism because some of us think that using the arm of the law to enforce a ritual of obedience is a bit fucked?

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: WTF, Obama?

« on: April 30, 2013, 09:48:34 pm »

Of course. In fact, that they've become tortured becomes yet another argument to detain them further, because, so the argument goes: even if they were innocent when they came in, they will come out hating America because of what happened to them.  So they must be detained.

That's the argument in it's most obvious and blatant form, of course.  It's rarely stated with such....directness.

"We had to create our enemies in order to defeat them." - United States of America