Do you think members of the US military will follow orders to shoot their countrymen?

The US government doesn't. That's why they made a treaty with Canada, that if Canada has a revolution, American solders will be sent to quell it, and if America has a revolution, Canadian solders will be sent to quell it.

With the right indoctrination, you can teach a man that his enemy is not human. But most people don't like shooting their neighbours, and will go AWOL if you try to make them.

It's the "command and control" technology for your civilization. But it's been subverted, just like a hacked server that is no longer doing what it was designed to do. If you act intelligently to replace it, most of you will be much better off. If you leave it to foreigners to smash it, you will be frantic to arrange "something" to co-ordinate your affairs, you'll make knee-jerk reactions, and most likely end up with something even worse.

Just a thought.

It's less work to wait someone to accumulate a following, then execute a campaign to trash their reputation and leave their followers without a coherent direction. That's how these things are done.

Ever think, maybe, the point of the education system from Day 1 is to interfere in your ability to do this? It seems custom made for such a purpose...

So what, you can work for money to give to people who screw you over at every turn, but you can't work to meet your needs directly without involving middle men? You can work for money to pay taxes to maintain the infrastructure you rely on, but you can't go work on that infrastructure without the guarantee of cash in your pocket, simply because it's important?

You ever think maybe if you spent less time thinking about all the things that you're entitled to have delivered to you on a silver platter... ...and more time thinking about your natural right to get off your ass and go address the problems in your life directly without middle men barring the way... ... maybe, just maybe, you might be better off?

This is a stupid idea. Pick up your guns and start a revolution, or don't. Congress is just a building full of people you don't have to listen to. Why would you work like a slave to pay someone millions of dollars to say what you want them to say when you can just ignore them and work on improving your country?

You wanna shut them down? Bush told you how after 9/11. It's simple.

STOP FUCKING SHOPPING.

Destroy the value of currency, get your country back. It's that simple.

I disliked Toby Maguire immensely. Spider-Man is supposed to be an overconfident wisecracking smart ass with a dash of brilliant intellect. Toby Maguire is an emo crybaby, the sort of guy who would keep his girlfriend by telling her he was going to kill himself.

The scene where the little kid faces down the villain was also an awesome scene. Not as good as Gwen's death scene, but awesome.

I think this was the best Spider Man movie ever made. That scene where Peter tells Gwen to stay out of the way because it's too dangerous, and she makes her oh-so-predictable "girls can do anything boys can do" speech, then gets shot dead... that was just awesome. I'm sick to death of the ridiculous "beefcake dressed as nerdy scientist wrings his hands while 110 lb woman dressed as dominatrix defeats six linebackers without messing up her hair" scenes coming out of Hollywood.

The next funny bit is, you're talking to me in the third person, letting me know that my joke was not a joke, and talking about how non-tech-savvy I am, despite the fact that I've been programming computers since I was 7 years old, have worked on some incredibly significant technology in my career and have been known to build 3D printers with hand tools in my living room for fun :D

Doofus.

They're watching us. Through our computers and cell phones.

Shame no one on that plane had a cell...

No, really, we don't. It's 100% about timeless style, not about being useful beyond telling you what time it is. Tools and gear are great, but there's not a single smart watch concept that has ever been released that I'd wear on a night out. They look ridiculous. Maybe you could sell them to younger people who like wearing loud obnoxious crap to attract attention, if you got the price down to their range, but the guy wearing a high precision German timepiece is not going to switch for the sake of utility.

I don't really disagree with your points, but this is an extremely naive statement. Many of these people are too old to make a radical career shift that will keep them in the middle class. When ever there is a radical shift in a large employment industry, there is economic devistation for a lot fo families. The steel industry is a good example of this. Yes most of them found new jobs, but the shift in economic buying power was dramatic and lasted for generations.

Scarcity is the economic concept that there is insufficient productive resources to meet all human wants and needs. I think we agree on that. I think your contention here is the "want" rather than the "need".

Of course there is a finite number of houses in the world. There is a finite amount of eveything. However, according to the Cenus Bureau, as of Q4 of 2013, the rental unit vacancy rate was 8.2% and more than 300,000 homes are foreclosed and unoccupied according to RealtyTrac. That's 8.2% of rental units that would be making more money than they are now if the rent on them was $10/month and 300,000 homes that are wasted livable space. There is no real shortage of housing in terms of need. People might want bigger and better, but there is no excuse for there to not exist housing that eveyone can afford.

There is no scarcity of food. We throw tons of it away constantly. The only thing holding us back from supplying as much food (with current production levels) as the world could ever need is a societal problem where we cannot bring ourselves to help eachother out. Current food needs are fully funded (by the people who are throwing away food). The only expense that should exist in providing food to low income families is logistics.

The only thing stopping us from solving the human population's basic needs is greed. Our society has been taking great pride in this greed for the last several hundred years and I don't expect the problem to be solved within my lifetime. But humanity should at least admit its problem and lower its head in shame rather than taking pride in climbing on top of other people.

The pocket change they threw at us was hardely enough to make a serious effort. Between QE1, QE2, and QE3, the Fed pumped upwards of $2 trillion into the monetary system (and rising). That's on the order of $6500 for every man woman and child in the country. If that money was alocated for debt forgiveness rather than creating new debt, it's enough money to make a meaningful dent in personal liabilities to free up cash for consumer spending. $200 one year $400 the next does nothing to this end. It helps (as was shown), but it does not seriously entertain freeing up regular cash for consumer spending.

The early days, before they got comfortable with being, not just "an" advertising company, but the most insidious and powerful advertising company in history, grander in scale than George Orwell could ever have fathomed?