Testing Chat V: The Final Mysterious Island: Miami Beach

[Agent Bert Macklin]

yeah i couldn't even get that far

i think right now i'll qualify for medicaid, my income has been way down this year and am current uninsured. but regardless i'd like to at least see what their website offers

I honestly have no idea if I'll be able to get anything. I can't find work because no one is willing to work with my school schedule. I am hoping that my Crohn's Disease will help, but I'm not optimistic.

Edit: Progress with IE! lol: http://i39.tinypic.com/24zeonm.jpg

[evilsoup]

blah blah whine whine people are stupid never trust anyone over 35 blah

question: are you involved in any kind of activism?

anyway I think it's glorious that the powers-that-be have switched from splitting people apart based on race to doing it based on age. Now you've got people blaming their parents (and thinking that the problem will be solved when they die) rather than the people who are actually at fault. It's a thing of beauty.

[Oxymoron]

You know, if there's a thing that I've got to admire with China, is that under Mao, even when dozens of millions of people where literally starving to death and they had already a hell of a time trying to industrialize, having a hard time even getting the most basic of a steel production industry going on,

they still managed to run a successful nuclear program and build not only A-bombs, but also H-bombs as well.

Whatever you might have to say about China and its human right record, you have to recognize there is almost nothing that a determined Chinese people cannot accomplish when it gets into its mind to get it done. It'll be done ruthlessly and with untold number of death and injuries and oppression, but they'll get it done eventually.

[evilsoup]

I don't know if I'd consider that impressive, exactly
they probably could have done it faster and better without the psychotic maoist mismanagement

[Oxymoron]

Rather, it's that they still managed to do it under those conditions that impress me, if that makes sense.

[Civil War Man]

lol I just imagined what a Canadian invasion would be like

they'd be constantly apologizing for getting in our way and offering us donuts

Before burning down the White House. Again. While apologizing for it.

At least until they are hit by a massive hurricane piloted by the vengeful ghost of George Washington or something.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=Iqhsot3mk7Q

[Agent Bert Macklin]

I;m currently working on a six-page take home exam for my sociology course. For one question, I chose to compare and contrast the theoretical perspectives of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber.

I came across some qwuotes duringm y research from Marx and for the liofe of me I really dont' see why American politicans hate this guy.

Examples:

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connexions everywhere.

In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed — a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.

Why all the fuss?

[Oxymoron]

I'd say, because he proposed to change that state of affairs ?

[Bakustra]

I;m currently working on a six-page take home exam for my sociology course. For one question, I chose to compare and contrast the theoretical perspectives of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber.

I came across some qwuotes duringm y research from Marx and for the liofe of me I really dont' see why American politicans hate this guy.

Examples:

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connexions everywhere.

In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed — a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.

Why all the fuss?

Nobody reads Marx. Even dedicated Marxists find it difficult to make it past Capital vol. 1. Of course, that's partly because Hegelian dialectics are legally a soporific narcotic (you can see this for yourself by checking out a copy of Clausewitz and trying to stay awake), but it's also because a lot of work has gone into discrediting Marx and ignoring the major effects he had on economic, political, and philosophical thought.

[adr]

sweet the microsoft office word and excel viewers work on linux w/ wine!

[Gands]

Why all the fuss?

Those with the power to disseminate information on Marx are also those who would be threatened by widespread adopting of his ideas.

Also, because of associations with the USSR, Marx is also tied up with issues of nationalism.

[zhaktronz]

I had no problem reading Von Clausewitz /huff

[Gands]

You know who is a surprisingly easy read? Martin Luther. Weird stuff.

[Oxymoron]

You mean the early protestant white guy, or the more recent protestant black guy ?

[Gands]

The German one.

[Stofsk]

You mean the early protestant white guy, or the more recent protestant black guy ?

If he meant the black guy he would have said Martin Luther King Jr.

[Oxymoron]

/joke

[Oxymoron]

Tom Clancy is dead.

Happened yesterday apparently.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainmen ... -1.1473782

[Flagg]

And the villagers rejoice.

[Darksi4190]

when was the last time Clancy put out a decent novel?

The last one I can even remember reading was "The Bear and the Dragon" back in 01.

[Oxymoron]

As ever, depends on how you define "decent" in regard to his writing.

[evilsoup]

I think it's in pretty bad taste to be celebrating his death just because you dislike his books

[Infinity Biscuit]

Flagg's entire life is attempts to be controversial so

[Oxymoron]

Words I use too much :

"actually"
"so"
"well"
"and"
"as"

[adr]

so sometimes like people tell me like I use words like so and like too much

sooooooo like who cares

lol