McHamburg
Germany on September 19, 2008 at 10:28 am
I plan on ranting at length very shortly so if your not familiar with my POV or just don't want to read a kid ranting I suggest you go hide under a pillow for a bit. I'll let you know when it's safe to come out.
Before I forget that's a pic of the train station in Amsterdam. Blurry, but I wasn't gonna hang around with my hand raised like a doof for a second try.
First I just want to reiterate the idiocy of at&t. I'm a big fan of the iphone just hate the service. I could buy a 1gig memory stick, priority ship it around the world, everyday for a month and pay about as much as I'm paying for 200mb a day. I could buy a laptop and a year of highspeed Internet with the amount they wanted to charge me in overages.
That was rant one, there's two more planned. Get out while you still can.
I snagged a better picture of the sign. On closer inspection it looks like some art show.
Imagine that ad in Boston…
It'd be 6 o'clock news to the rescue.
Start with 3-4 interviews of mothers who didn't really care until you put a camera in their face and asked, "you don't want to look like a bad parent do you?"
Show kids coming out of school from archive footage.
Cut to artist being ushered into car declining to comment.
Flash forward 2 days where the advertising company publicly apologizes on behalf of his client and company.
I'm watching the news last night and this guy is on scene "explaining" the financial crisis and Cindy in the studio asks, "Where are they getting all this money?"
"Well, they don't just print it out of thin air. Ha ha."
Yes you fuckhead, they do. That is why our dollar is worthless and I'm paying 50% more for everything here.
The politicians are going on about greed, corporate greed. Fuck you. Greed is why America exists. To blame someone for being greedy is like blaming them for being human.
It's not greed that causes issues it's regulations. When you regulate people will work around your laws or worse they'll reside safely in the loopholes of your inadequate laws. Safe where in a free market they would be wiped out by the natural corrections in a free market. It was regulations that allowed these companies to take on a retarded amount of risk. And now we bail them out when they realize that risk isn't just a number on a piece of paper.
What does that fix, gah!
The lawfakers are trying to save their own asses because their misunderstanding of the effects the laws they pass is staring to show.
Trying to cover up where their regulating failed, with more regulating.
We need to let these companies fall flat on their collective asses otherwise we are being set up to fail again and worse.
I think about this everyday when I pay $15 for a cheeseburger, fry, and soda. Or any other time I need to convert € to $.
I realize it more after China where to covert ¥ to $ you divide by 6 or 7.
Here I need to divide by a number less than 1. And it doesn't take a math major to k ow what happens when you divide by a number less than 1.
One newscaster seriously asked if this was the inevitable failure of capitalism that Karl Marx predicted. We don't have capitalism we have a sloshing mess of socialism that we call capitalism.
There was more I wanted to say but I think I lost coherence already.
Don't bother listening to me I can't cite any sources besides the many people that influence my ideas. I'm not a news syndicate who feels the need to remind you I am unbiased and trustworthy. But you know I was on a train today advertised to be high speed and it was slow as molasses.
Oh wait I have notes on other news that made me wince here. Newsman claimed a 250 page amendment was snuck into a bill. Now either he's shitting with me, or you can really sneak a novel sized amendment into a bill or your congressmen can't be bothered to read the amendment.
I know which one I think is most likely.
Back to normally scheduled programming tomorrow. I wouldn't normally post something like this but with just me here I got all this time to think and if I don't write it down I will get stuck on it.