Howdy! I've kinda been lurking for a while. How is everyone?
It's like that horrible screech you get when the microphone is positioned too close to a speaker, only with cops.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 17, 2014, 04:38:01 PM
If no work gets done, everyone fucking starves.
Ergo, work must be done.
Therefore it is best to do work you enjoy.
Does that serve the system? Who cares?
Fucking Slate.
Quote from: V3X on January 14, 2014, 11:20:06 PM
We didn't really want this whole Internet thing to be a multi-way communication system anyway. One-way is more than enough. Back in my day, we didn't get to talk to each other over the teevee. We used it for getting the evening Truth and watching Beaver Knows Best, and that's it, and we got along just fine. I don't see why we'd want the Internet to be anything other than that. Too many options is bad for Freedom.
Quote from: :regret: on December 12, 2013, 07:14:37 PMQuote from: Radagast's Red Velvet Pancake Puppies on December 12, 2013, 06:23:24 PMThe state defaults before being conquered. Debt gone, credit rating shit. But their credit rating is not the USA's credit rating. Look, it is a great idea in theory. All it requires is that the banks don't use logic or pay attention.Quote from: :regret: on December 12, 2013, 05:59:34 PM
Spending your way out of a recession is great if you would just default at the end. Can't the USA have a state seccede on the one condition that they take up all the national debt? Then that state goes bankrupt and the USA conquers the state. Presto! debt gone.
Uhhh how does that work? If the US conquered that state, they would then be responsible for its debts.
Quote from: Pæs on November 28, 2013, 11:35:20 PM
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/9456882/China-sends-warplanes-into-defence-zoneQuoteChina has sent warplanes into its newly declared maritime air defence zone, state media reports from Beijing say.
The flights came after South Korean and Japanese flights through the zone added to the international defiance of rules Beijing says it has imposed in the East China Sea.
China's air force spokesman Shen Jinke said several fighter jets and an early warning aircraft were sent on normal air patrols in the zone. He was quoted by the state news agency Xinhua.
Shen described the flights as "a defensive measure and in line with international common practices." He said China's air force would remain on high alert and will take measures to protect the country's airspace.
Without prior notice, Beijing began demanding on Saturday that passing aircraft identify themselves and accept Chinese instructions or face consequences in an East China Sea zone that overlaps a similar air defence identification zone overseen by Japan since 1969 and initially part of one set up by the US military.
That was tested just days later by US B-52 flights - with Washington saying it made no effort to comply with China's rules, and would not do so in the future.
South Korea's military said its planes flew through the zone this week without informing China and with no apparent interference.
Japan also said its planes have continuing to fly through it after the Chinese announcement, while the Philippines, locked in an increasingly bitter dispute with Beijing over South China Sea islands, said it also was rejecting China's declaration.
Quote from: Auscultare of the Fatigue on November 27, 2013, 11:33:11 PMQuote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on November 27, 2013, 06:50:23 PMQuote from: Auscultare of the Fatigue on November 27, 2013, 06:10:02 PM
China wouldn't be allowed to call in the debt. One main reason our debt is so large right now is because so many countries wouldn't think twice about lending to us for the simple fact that we always pay our debts back, with interest, on time.
Correct me if I'm wrong?
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on August 28, 2013, 03:37:32 PMQuote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 28, 2013, 03:03:55 PM
Go get 'em!
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on May 18, 2013, 04:12:48 AMReminds me of people saying that the real job of leaders is climate control.
Wow, it sounds like the company fell prey to the same thing many companies fall to when they grow too fast... all of a sudden employees are just a commodity to squeeze dry, corners are cut, all integrity is abandoned in favor of the bottom line. But it's a false bottom line because it's based on spreading people too thin and lying to them and depriving them of benefits, so it all collapses in the long run.
May California treat you well!
Quote from: BabylonHoruv on July 26, 2011, 04:05:53 PMQuote from: Jenne on July 26, 2011, 04:00:33 PM
The GOP are a bunch of fuckin' liars. They don't want to raise taxes on the big corps...this has nothing to do with small business owners. Because that's ONE loophole they can make that folks would agree with. But their corporate sponsors and their campaign money won't let them.
"You can't tax the job creators." They're not even CORPORATIONS anymore--they're fucking "Job Creators."
All this when we have a hugeass unemployment rate. So we're supposed to believe that not taxing them leads to more jobs, just like bailing out all those banks meant more people would get loans.
So much for the emperor and his invisible clothes, assholes!
Did you see his speech? What I took from it wasn't that he was talking about tax increases (or the lack of them) on small businesses, but that he was trying to say that his experience as a small business owner informed his decision, as a politician to cut expenses. That any sane small business owner would choose to cut expenses if they were larger than revenue. Basically using a small business as a metaphor for government. It's a flawed metaphor anyway, but even remaining within it his solution makes no sense.
Also, Boehner looks like a cartoon to me.