Not at all; just making a point.

"Yeah I Grubered the American people with Obamacare, and if ya'll don't like it, you can kiss my big black ass"?

I'm still cracking up at that cactus! :) I guess that's International Sign (or maybe, since the Obamacare joke's on us, Sigh) Language for "you've just been Grubered!".

But seriously, I don't know why people are painting Jonathan Gruber as being some kind of Hans Gruber -like super bad-guy. What he expressed is just part of the core set of beliefs of the Left in America. FNC is so happy to go along with the Left in keeping the people dumb, all they seemed to focus on was how insulting it was, and I didn't see a minute (not that I watch for very many) about how there might some (or rather a lot) of truth to what he was saying.

If Fox News really was Right-wing, they would've treated this as the potential break-through moment that it was, to awaken the oblivious third of Americans who think it's safe (for America) to vote Democrat just because they're a major party, and that Liberals are the good guys. But Fox News is a business, and their game is partisan bickering, and they'd rather people not learn and outgrow that. And the Left is just fine with that. (Because their news outlets certainly aren't about succeeding as businesses, so where the advantage lies is clear.)

Have you used ASP.NET MVC? Because if you're not using the HTML helpers (which among other things create tags for you), you're doing it wrong. Tags are matched, but you get some line breaks in weird places that make the generated HTML not as neat as I prefer. And the checkbox helper emits two controls instead of one, so that the model binding magic works.

Fighting other people for my amusement so that I don't have to talk to humans would be the same as curing my ills.

This is simply a core, fundamental belief in modern American Leftism. They'd moved on from trying to convince the working classes to join them in overthrowing the system, to being convinced (and this part they're right about) that people are too stupid to make the right decisions for themselves and therefore they need to fool them into letting them gradually, fundamentally transform the system. Communism has simply adapted and evolved, to what works and what doesn't. (Because what works is the *only* thing it's all about, because in that (man-made) morality system, the virtues of the dreamt about outcomes far outweigh sacrificing truth, and human dignity (for greater, collective outcomes).)

This stuff just isn't even shocking anymore. I guess rather you post things like this just to tweak your two Leftie besties/tormentors back. Integrity is like infidelism; it's just one group's axis of morality that's not even recognized as being one to the other.

...but not completely there yet. She's figured out that Lefties are fueled by vile thinking, and that this is characteristic only of that side. What she and I believe you haven't fully connected the dots on is the deceit. TFAuthor writes as though she believes the extent of lying on the Left is only on behalf of its set of sacred cows. And in the absence of attacks on those, Lefties will level with you, such that it even makes sense to converse with them, as long as you stay away from or make allowances for their reactions to those touchy areas.

And there's another! Why don't these people think of these things? It's like they apply to appear on the show, but they're never watched it. So it's like they're oblivious to the same kinds of problems each pair runs into.

Maybe it's that if you've got the guts and confidence to volunteer for something like that, you think you don't need to learn anything from prior contestants/victims. Strangely, no one dropped out voluntarily on N & A's first season, and they didn't have any way of knowing what it would be like from watching a previous season. Later seasons find people going in all cocky, and then tapping out, and they have the benefit of knowing in advance what they'll be in for! (And some of these people wussing out are survival instructors; to fail at what you claim you're good at, on national TV, can't be too good for that part of your career!)

I kinda glossed over the plastic sheet thing, but that's brilliant too. All the people on these shows are actually amazingly good at making shelters, but they can leak a little in a downpour. Would make a good inner liner, from the rain as well as wind. And bugs, if it was big enough. Which leads me to the last puzzling thing I'll mention; in some locales the bugs eat them alive, and in some they freeze their butts off at nights, and I can't help but wonder, how come no one has ever gone subsurface with their shelter. Some, esp. in jungle areas, have made very cool raised shelters, I guess because of army ants and venomous snakes. But there's nothing insulating like earth.

(p.s. You might also be thinking using the plastic sheet to condense steam. One guy on Dude You're Screwed had a plastic baggie, and put some juicy leaves in it and left it in the sun, and got a bit of fresh water that way.)

Sure, I don't mind at all when the mfr's release teaser images of a new model, for example. There's no commentary with it; you decide if you like the style of the new whatever, or if you think it could grow on you, or not. But for a "review", entailing pros and cons, and including comparisons with competitors say, I'd rather listen to third parties (even though some of them can be bought and sold by a given advertiser and/or already be predisposed towards certain mfrs).

Ads are one-sided, and that's their deficiency (to their recipients). Movie trailers can portray a movie a lot funnier than it is. I watch all the movie trailers I come across, and keep a list of movies I haven't seen that might be worthwhile, but they only tell me if it *might be* worthwhile. I've got burned a few times with some real zonkers, because I don't generally seek out reviews of movies first.

Taking this a little broader, realize that, generally speaking, ads totally suck. They're not for you and me. They're meant for the vast masses of dummies. They only have a short time to convey a winning impression, and it seems like the people in the ad business, like the people on the Left, almost always opt for trying to fool you about or into something. Things like "if such-and-such is great on this, just imagine how good it would be for that" don't work on us, because we're logical enough to know that that's not a real reason, and that a 30 second spot has completed and they've made no actual claim.

Watching ads is like watching FNC only, or watching anything but FNC only.

Reminds me, my sis's in-laws are those certain kinds of people who wallpaper their small homes with dusty old bookshelves and books, of wildly varying, esoteric topics.

What will today's hipster youth do when they're older to peacock (yes, I just verbized that) their bohemianness or whatever.

Methinks KATE was repurposed from its former role of predicting ocean level rising.