What if I don't value either of those and would rather just sit back smugly at all the mice scurrying around trying desperately to have a good time?
Worked last year.
worked this year.
Never had jollier, more relaxing holidays before that.

I just stopped worrying about Christmas. People get so worked up over this expectation of happiness, it doesn't seem like a holiday as much as a sport or battlefield.
Last year, I just stayed home, listened to christmas tunes, ate a burrito, had a nap and played some games. It was restful, jolly, and maybe the best Christmas I've ever had.

wow, ha! um, that was supposed to be "prevail", which rhymes with fail...

Just share with neighbors. Hire an electrician, share with people on your block or just next door.

Start thinking like a community again, USA! If I had extra energy I'd share it with the neighbors so their bill is lower. Could it be a little complex and cost money? Yeah.
But the goodwill and sense of community it develops would be awesome.

This is the solution. Separate we are defeated. In unison, as a community, we fail.

The way to fight COINTELPRO is to educate people and get them used to sex and deviance more.

Cheated on your wife? Ok, fine, yeah. people like sex and it happens. We all get attracted to others, let's not worry too much about it and move on. Are you still in a job and have a stable family who you spend time with and show them you care? Great! Then what's the big deal... ? If kings can have harems and mistresses then people should be allowed to as well. Non-monogamy: it isn't just for the nobility anymore! This is the goddamn 21st century, let's admit we're all human.

Watch porn? Great! You love masturbating and that's a healthy thing. Watch midget porn? Yeah, that's cool too? Peeing on midgets? That's pretty creative, how awesome is that? Like hiring midgets to pee on you? Well maybe you're a little removed from society and could use a night out to socialize. That's cool. :)

Discrediting people only happens when there's guilt associated with it. If we open people up to more ideas then it's harder to shame them.

Slashdot: You're about education. The hard part about education is that emotions and points of view go along with facts. We can analyze and logic out the FACTS all we want here, the hard part is assimilating a changing world into how we actually feel and interact with others. That takes time and effort.

We have an education system that frickin' deifies memorizing details, but does little or nothing to raise up thought, which takes time, introspection, and (yes) socialization.

I seem to have forgotten my point here... aha! COINTELPRO: It's only a bad thing if you can be shamed. If everybody outs themselves as deviant then it becomes socially acceptable and we have much less to fear. It's like going and sitting on that bus: Just do it. And keep doing it.

Um... check the facts. Look at the number of groups that are "red" which would have received IRS flags simply by virtue of how they did business, and the basic number of them versus the number of "blues". It wasn't targeting, they simply went after what looked suspicious.

Look, if you have 100 yellow widgets and 25 green widgets, and 10% of all of them have issues, then OMG there are more defective yellow widgets. That's what happened here. Stop being a media mouthpiece and start looking at the facts for yourself.

I really wish I had mod points...

When there is a question like this in a headline, it's just looking for clicks.

Just answer "No."

End of discussion, right? Right? :P

I only had to move from Chicago to LA to experience low-end, unreliable DSL. Why did this guy go to so much extra trouble?

If it has to be a sworn statement that goes to court, why doesn't it have to be a sworn statement that stops her from getting on the plane?

Not buying anything, why fight the crowds? I tried it once and there was just nothing I really wanted to buy, but it was an experience I won't forget. In fact, I'll do the same thing as last year: Absolutely nothing. I saw no one, and bought nothing. It might be the best Thanksgiving I've ever had. No running around, no madness, just me, myself and I.
I can't decide if the fact that I'm neither going shopping nor spending any time with family is a good thing or not. Please, internet, tell me what to think!

This has been posted on here before, so I'm kind of just karma whoring, but I have long suspected, and explained to others, that this idea that we can all work until we're 70 or 75 because we'll live to 100 for this generation is bullshit, a scam to keep us grinding along and working until we drop dead. I say that with all the technological advances we've made in the last 50 years we may have less of an idea of what much of it does to the body than we think. it might not be making for a good quality of life at advanced age.
We may be living longer, but what I feel I am seeing in older people is that some of them are quite unhappy with how they feel. Then again, others say anything is better than being dead.
Thoughts?
Whew, is it hot in here or is it just me?

Strangely, I once knew an anesthesiologist who was just like this. He tried to strangle me in public once, but before that he'd tell us about all sorts of things he'd done to other people, professional rules he loved to break, pictures he'd take of patients when they weren't looking.
Great-looking guy, highly successful, but he did fit the descriptions above, esp. when he flipped his shit.

So a venture capitalist apparently offered the creator 5 million for Winamp and that was declined... so... wouldn't that mean there are other plans for the IP?

2 tons of sand for one barrel of oil? With all the processes needed to get the sand and process it that sure doesn't sound like it makes monetary sense to even extract the oil in the first place... can someone help me understand what I'm missing?

Going to wear a dress shirt, slightly unbuttoned, with a Superman t-shirt underneath, and go to Lucha Vavoom in Los Angeles.
It's gonna be awesome.

was... um... was I supposed to say I'm staying home and programming? Cuz... no way.