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Capitalism contains a fairly efficient and fluid value system: a person, item or service is worth whatever demand for that person, item or service is willing to pay. Any particular commodity in our society is worth more than a comparable commodity if it possesses some quality that the prospective buyer finds useful. However, in our society there also exists a curious disconnect that appears to revolve around undue assignments of value; consider, as a baseline example, that a member of our society is allowed to vote (and thus wield extreme power over the direction of our nation) irrespective of their value to society (i.e., why should felons be allowed to vote?). Similarly, the cutoff for when a growing child is allowed to vote is an arbitrary constant almost completely unrelated to value: age. What exactly makes an 18-year old D-student more competent to vote responsibly than a 17-year old genius? Voting and citizenry rights aside for a moment (well… probably another article will be in order very soon): value of an individual, from a societal viewpoint, seems like it should derive from the individual’s demonstrated potential to contribute to society, just as value of a commodity is determined by the commodity’s degree of usefulness to the buyer. So it seems to me that if we, as a society, really gave a shit about our fellow citizens and their well being, then we could best help the disadvantaged to improve their value by enabling them to raise their potential. The most effective manner by which I believe we can achieve this is by supplying our citizens with biological contentment, allowing them to focus upon skill/education development opportunities. And, yes, when I say “supplying”, I mean that society should foot the bill.
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Ah, the strategically placed question mark. In grammatical actuality, a question mark converts a sentence (such as the one in the title of this article) from a simple statement of fact to more of an incredulous query. In this case, the sentence is not INTENDED to claim that I have a nearly footlong cock, but rather introduces the possibility of such a thing and acts as a prelude to investigation of the veracity of the sentence. If you are a more or less completely unknown blogger such as myself, there’s really very little chance that people will pass over the punctuation and make the jump directly to full-scale BELIEF in what the sentence tenuously claims. HOWEVER: if the title sentence were to appear as the caption for a report on a highly respected cable news outlet, such as, just for example purposes here… Fox News, then the less discriminating of their viewers might well think to themselves “Oh, wow, Sean Coincon has an eleven inch penis, and here comes some non-ambiguous reporting to further verify the factoid I’ve ALREADY completely assimilated into my memories and subsequent worldview!”
The biggest problem I have with the whole Auto Industry Bailout thing is one of intent: when the American Big 3 automakers (GM, Ford and Chrysler) came to the government in search of aid, their initial line of reasoning was NOT “Look, we understand we’ve been jacking off for the past decade and are now reaping the consequences of our admittedly American business tactics. For some strange reason, the Japanese pursued higher efficiency, better technology, and overall operational streamlining INSTEAD of our brilliant, bludgeon-the-consumer-over-the-head-with-advertising-while-our-vehicle-standards-plummet approach, and that has lead – QUITE unfairly, I might add – to the Japanese earning profits that cannot be adequately mathematically described as a percentage of our own because OUR profits are a fucking NEGATIVE NUMBER. Therefore, we are in dire god damn need of a huge fuck-off loan or at LEAST a nice governmental stock purchase like the Financial Industry got. And exactly WHOSE dick got sucked to seal THAT deal?” No no NO, the overture of choice was “Hey, give us tons of relatively oversight free cash or we swear to whatever god you care to name that we’ll go right into bankruptcy and take millions of American jobs with us.”
This was sent to me this morning by my beloved sister-in-law… I plan on doing a bigger piece on this subject later/when I have time, so for now, here’s what was sent to me. You can see how it might give me ideas; as a brief preview: the entire point of Capitalism was that companies that saw successes or were useful to the American people (and thus saw successes) and could do either of these things WITHOUT the need for government intervention (aka Socialism) were able to survive and prosper in the general marketplace. Those that could NOT either changed the way they did business OR were doomed to failure and dissolution. Holding tens of thousands of American jobs hostage does not mean we should give the hostage taker what he wants; we should shoot his ass and free up his resources so that other, more honest businesses may flourish.
That’s right: I’m back, bitches.
So. I really did like the demo. I’ve been a fan of the Battlefield series since the WWII days and I was very pleased to see an upgrade of the old flavor to a straight-up modernesque time period and I actually went out and PURCHASED the thing this past Friday.
I regret my decision.
What’s really, REALLY sad about the whole thing is that I HAVE a good copy of Photoshop, sitting on the external hard drive, and it would be the work of mere moments to fire up Daemon Tools and mount the bitch.
Alas, I am lazy.
But Gerry’s little Zangief/360 throwdown there has me interested. Assuming I were to do some very simple rewiring, I could easily put Photoshop on the notebook lappy, where the ability to write directly onto the screen could be extremely handy. Speaking of handy, did any of you click on the wikipedia link above yet? Go ahead, I’ll wait.
Ok, I stole the title for this post from a totally bitchin’ bumper sticker I spotted on a vechical at my last apartment, but it sums up my feeling on the subject quite nicely. So nicely, in fact, that I’m stealing it for use as the title of this post. There, the circle is closed.
It’s gonna happen to you one day Phil. Mark my word. It’s going to happen. Although, as you can see, Phil’s don’t cry. They just give evil drunken stares.
This gives me an idea actually! I think that there need to be a contest of sorts going on here! It’s the “What-would-they-look-like-if-their-360-broke photoshop contest!” Maybe we can even dig up a prize, but there’s no gaurentees. Got photoshop skillz? Good! Don’t need’em. Why? Because this is a contest to find the most terrible, humorus picture around! Rules after the jump!
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YEAH! PRESIDENT, BITCHES!
No, seriously. I do. Not because I think I’d do a kickass job or anything, I just wanna be read-on to the “President’s-Eyes-Only” programs and steal all the files and fax ‘em all to CNN for a pittance. Plus it’d be an awesome way to make people learn to pronounce my last name in a real goddamned hurry. Get it wrong and you’ll have the NSA all up in your Kool-Ade.
Hell sudden froze over and then rapidly unfroze this morning in Paris as Diablo Mother Fucking 3 was announced. After a week of speculating on the mysterious image over at Blizzard’s site, first thinking it’s just an announcement for WoW: Wrath of the blah blah, then thinking it was Diablo 3, then thinking it was Starcraft 2 release date, THEN thinking it was Lost Viking 3, and FINALLY coming back to Starcraft 2, it was unveiled that Diablo 3 was in the works. And man, not just in the works but coming along nicely. The videos shown are of a game at least 5-10 years in (that’s a Blizzard 5-10). What I’m hoping, is they were waiting to announce until close to release. I don’t want to wait another 2 years from now to play it. The one year we’ve known about Starcraft 2 has been bad enough.
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