Vote Ron Paul and squash the NSA, the Fed, and all these stupid agencies that seek to turn our world into 1984

Stupid agencies like OSHA and the EPA and the FTC who make sure I don't have the liberty to filthy my neighbor's water and air, take away my God-given right to run a dangerous workplace, my right to fuck over my customers?

Sorry, Kid, but I was alive before the EPA and OSHA. If there had been an EPA when I was a kid the air wouldn't have burned my lungs when we drove past Monsanto. If there had been an OSHA in 1959 my grandfather (who died because Purina was too damned cheap to put doors on the elevator) would have lived another quarter century.

I guess you'd get rid of the FDA and bring back snake oil salesmen and Upton Sinclair's The Jungle?

Because that's exactly what government is for -- keeping you from fucking me over. Things like roads and fire stations and schools are just icing on the cake.

The next generation may be the one that grows up without very expensive music.

FTFY. Quality music is no longer expensive to produce; the labels are pocketing the savings rather than passing it to the customer. In lots of 2000 a CD cost about a buck, including professional stamping and packaging. That makes it a couple grand to professionally produce a CD. That's far less than musical instruments cost.

Most indie bands sell their CDs for five bucks around here.

This "streaming music is dying" isn't a blow to music, it's a blow to independently produced music -- the majors still have radio (and radio station streams are all in good health), TV, and movies to showcase their merchandise. Indies are losing their power to market, which is why the RIAA hates internet streaming and P2P.

Corporate merchandise 1, indie art 0. Now what? We still have noisy merchandise but we're losing noisy art. God damn corporate greedsters and their God damned paid-off congress...

Conversely is to converse what literally is to literal. So I fail to see your point.

Christ, guys, this is the dumbest thing I've heard all week. Grow up without music? Right, like internet-only streaming music is the only music there is. You dumb kids do realize, don't you, that I was over forty before there was such a thing is internet-streaming music at all? Do you also know that there are these old-fashioned things called "radios" (I'll bet there's one in your car) that you can... GASP! Stream music from? Even record that streaming music?

What's more, unlike when I was a kid when you could only hear stations that are within about seventy miles or so, now you can hear almost every single radio station in the world. Want to listen to KSHE in St Louis? It's on the internet. KZAP in California (do they still play rock?)? Probably on the internet. A British station? On the internet. Brazilian? On the internet.

And you can stream those THOUSANDS of radio stations from your phone.

Guess what? You can also BUY CDs, RENT music from iTunes, or pirate it from TPB. You can rip CDs and put them on your phone.

A generation without music? How fucking naive. Dumb kids...

The only societal differences are artificial. There's no difference between Limbaugh and a junkie with a needle in an alley.

Thanks, I needed that.

Actually, the link in the sig actually is from 1998, a blast from the past that hasn't been on the internet in ten years. The other is simple html; a single graphic, text, and links. Ever heard of the KISS principle?

BTW, su Englis es no mal por un Hispanico.

I'm fairly certain legalizing things like meth and cocaine wouldn't do much to aid the addicted.

It's better than sending them to prison, AKA Criminal University. If their drugs were cheaper they wouldn't be stealing from me. I never knew a cigarette smoker or alcoholic stealing to support their addictions.

Legalization would end the drug violence, just as Prohibition's end ended the violence of the illegal liquor trade. All the arguments for Prohibition as well as against it still apply in today's prohibitions, and history shouldn't be ignored.

Shouldn't these bought dogs be looking to balance the budget?

The deficit has been falling for years.

Actually, that's incorrect. Tinkers and smiths became engineers with the advent of the steam engine, which was used for industry and rail transportation. Both tinkers and smiths needed knowledge of metallurgy and physics, and some chemistry (at least for smiths). Tinkers and smiths evolved into engineers, so to speak.

The truck also randomly locks it's own doors for no reason

My 2002 Chrysler does that, but it's by design -- when the car reaches 15 mph, the doors lock. However, unlike yours, I can easily unlock them.

I know for a fact I couldn't leave mine for a month, the blinking LED on the dash to show that the alarm is armed alone would drag it down (never mind the actual alarm circuits).

You say that in jest, but according to Good Morning America the majority of them actually were 123456!

As a potsmoker, all I have to say to you is FUCK OFF AND DIE HORRIBLY, you god damned troll. I hope YOU find some unshielded cobalt, or better yet, plutonium.

Fucking asshole, die motherfucker. This planet will be better off when you're gone.

I bet you'd learn some interesting things about who does drugs once the casualties start to pile up.

Indeed, there have been cops, judges, and prosecuters in the news in Illinois in the last year who were busted for cocaine. There are the mayor of that Canadian city and the ex-mayor of DC. Look at Rush Limbaugh.

I look at "war on drugs" politicians like I look at right wing politicians who constantly decry homosexuality, how many of them have been kicked out of the closet?

I don't know if the GP is an idiot, a troll, or a government shill. He advocates a painful death for drug users? I smoke pot and advocate HIS death. Alcohol, tobacco, and coffee are all addictive drugs. Marijuana is not.

All of society's problems that are attributed to drugs are really problems that stem from the laws against them.

I agree that tech helps those in power, but it also empowers the week.

I hope English is your second language.

Look at the book/music publishing industry etc

I used to think that until I released Nobots. I'll be lucky to make the investment in a copyright registration, ISBN, and bar code back, let alone earn any money from it.

I'm reading a James Patterson novel and have discovered that marketing always trumps talent and hard work, the guy's really not that good a writer. But all his books are best sellers and every time I see a woman with a book, it's one of his.