People and corporations that operated fairly well in the good times started to get eaten alive by their own inefficiencies they were too inflexible or proud to shed. Assuming ample potable water and no murder, who will more likely last the longest on the proverbial desert island, the obese person or the skinny one?

I don't give two shits what goes on in the fake economy of people trading chits and imagining money into existence.

What kind of person who's not an idiot thinks there can be infinite growth on a finite planet? A thief.

Jobs are slavery. It takes a real sycophant to fetishize being a slave. "Socialist" countries like Norway are better places for small businesspersons than the US (according to that oh-so-socialist-pinko Inc. Magazine). Fsck jobs. People don't need jobs. They need livelihoods, and it is highly damaging to individual freedom that USian society and its laws concentrate wealth upward and provide socialism for the 1%, Calvinball for the 99%.

FNC is the broadcast equivalent of sociopathy.

Americans are so pathological that their fucking identities seem to depend on subjugating themselves to someone richer.

What's up with that? Civilized countries have fine social safety nets. Being "jobless" isn't a catastrophe there because their people generally haven't had every last bit of humanity in their lives commodified and sold back to them.

No, there is left-wing corporatism. Have you ever asked yourself what the hell kind of logical connection there is between employment and social benefits like health care or pensions? A friend's father, who is firmly in the top 10%, drank deep of the Murdoch Kool-Aid and actually thinks that the ridiculous inequalities of wealth and living conditions in Brazil are all right by him, didn't want any sort of socialized health care because he wants to be able to do nice things for his employees.

The end game of capitalism is feudalism.

My favorite Jello Biafra quote: "It's not left vs. right, it's top vs. bottom."

That's more skulduggery than it's worth. Just "not-promise" them a $600k/yr lobbying gig. It worked for Dodd, and it's going to work for that treasonous fuck Lieberman.

The Democratic Party is a center-right party. Try again.

social libertarianism makes it easier and less risky to move their product. Giving the disadvantaged a fish is not a "left-wing" cause. It's noblesse oblige.

economists.

CDT6CST is still a valid time zone, if you don't need to account for the differences in Chicago's vs. Denver's historical observation of DST. Rock on, brother.

Speaking as an astrologer, it would be interesting to know the precise time, date and place the suit was filed... I would absolutely expect that they'd time their initial filing to their own favor. Even though I don't read horary well at all, assuming Boston at high noon leads to interesting interpretations: The ruler of the 1st house (the plaintiff) in the 5th house (speculation) and being Jupiter (expansion) well-aspected by Pluto (The Man) certainly suggests abuse of power, a bit of recklessness or that someone's looking for a windfall. The ruler of the 7th house (the defendant) in the 10th (status, exemplar) and afflicted by several difficult aspects from Saturn, Uranus and the aforementioned Pluto doesn't bode well for the defendants, though Mars (the action principle) certainly works more toward their favor than Astrolabe's.

So, basically, if Astrolabe catches the attention of Anonymous, they will be fucked sooooo hard they won't even KNOW what time it is.

Turning to look at my bookshelf, I own the Astrolabe World Ephemeris, which is a pretty half-assed ephemeris, and several quality ACS publications.

But I also emailed Astrolabe's people to inform them that I wouldn't support their trolling (and since I *do* deal in matters astrological, and have acquaintances who own occult book stores, my own complaint might carry a bit of weight).

openastro.py ftw!

Astrologers require accurate times to create an accurate map of the sky (which is why that Sun-sign horseshit in the comics section of the newspaper works about as well as a "fair dice roll"). An almanac of the history and practices of timekeeping in various regions is indispensable to those who research the correlations of planetary positions with events.

As to how ACS and Astrolabe are connected, I think Astrolabe might have bought the rights to electronic reproduction of the ACS Atlas some time in the past ten years, when I last researched licensing the ACS Atlas for a project I was working on at the time.

Heh, the same commie that tried to lock up a bunch of government-paid medical research for private profit, which fortunately died in committee...