>> ^EMPIRE:

how surprising that the vast majority of the politicians in the chamber don't even get up from their seats. Fucking animals. You see someone take a fall like that, and you don't run to see if they're ok, you are a terrible terrible person (or squeamish, which I doubt was the case).


Or you realize that you will be stopping the paramedics from doing their job since everyone in the room is blocking them.

how surprising that the vast majority of the politicians in the chamber don't even get up from their seats. Fucking animals. You see someone take a fall like that, and you don't run to see if they're ok, you are a terrible terrible person (or squeamish, which I doubt was the case).

I of course meant Baker. I thought he was third, but a quick check of Wikipedia tells me my memory is faulty and that I'm a terrible person who should research before making comments off the cuff. Yeah, Wikipedia said all that... it's kinda a jerk. It was in the appeal, that's why you didn't see it...

Thanks for the reply, Netrunner.
>> ^NetRunner:
For example, does Judge Judy deserve to make vastly more money than Sandra Day O'Connor?
They both knew the rules of the game, and one of them is in greater compliance with those rules. However, most wealth is created by being savvy, rather than getting lucky as an athlete or an entertainer.
>> ^NetRunner:
This is just a restatement of the libertarian assumption, not really an argument for its veracity.
That seems like trying to distinguish 'making an argument' from 'making an argument'. Aren't your positions simply a restatement of the liberal assumption?
>> ^NetRunner:
Is Sandra Day O'Connor weighed down from success by her "predictably bad ideology"?
She's just one more government bureaucrat, and probably has a terrible personal life and terrible general intellectual life beyond law. She willingly chose a limited (but still extraordinary) path, knowing the range of outcomes that could occur, so she deserves whatever she gets.


Here's the type of deal I'd be happy to commit to: If people like this http://videosift.com/video/Spring-Break-Couple-Dance-Fail bring sports, alcohol, smoking & drug consumption, and protesting (http://videosift.com/video/G20-Protest-that-was-Stolen-from-the-Peaceful-Majority?loadcomm=1#comment-1028436) down to 10% of current levels, start reading at least 1000 science articles per year, getting rigorous exercise daily, and eating a paleo diet, I'll agree to re-distribute the fruits of my labor.

>> ^blankfist:

@3:06... fap fap fap


She's not trying to be sexy.. she just can't stop jiggling.

am I a terrible person? ..yeah..yeah i'm a terrible person.

Am I a terrible person for upvoting this?

Reminds me of



Yes, indeed, I'm a terrible person.

Nice, educational video. Definitely worth watching.

... and I feel like a terrible person for only being able to hear "ass burger syndrome".

Religious Fundamentalism rears it's ugly head.

This man has more in common with the Taliban fighters in Afghanistan than a mainstream American. They want to impose their religious beliefs using government, too. Theocracy = fail fail fail. Religious Freedom (and by extension Freedom FROM religion) is a cornerstone to a strong democracy.

What an arrogant prick. He may as well be an accomplice. I'll upvote this terribly terrible person.

If you laugh at this you are a terrible person.

*snigger. *giggle

I'm a terrible person

Oh, and mentally scarring you doggy? *dark humour there, I tell thee!

Everyone is quick to point out the difference in the intent of both, but the structure is the same.

Both take in money, but nether invests it.
Both use the money of new "investors" to fund payouts.
Both require more and more new investors to maintain the payouts.

I understand the intent of Social Security and I understand how Madoff was a terrible person. However, that doesn't change the fact that SS is set up the same way as what Madoff did (minus the ability for people to take out large sums at once). The way SS is currently set up is not sustainable (ie- it will have to be changed dramatically).


I'm sorry if that upsets anyone. I'm not saying SS is a scam, I'm saying it will fail for the same reason Madoff's scheme failed unless there are big changes.

Taking care of retired people is a very noble cause, but beneficiaries and life expectancies are increasing faster than the number of people paying into Social Security. In fact the number of workers per beneficiary will continue to decrease. Eventually, just like Madoff's scheme, there will be less money coming into SS than the amount payed out. Several estimates I've seen show this happening by 2020 (in fact it is already happening, but it is being payed for by the original surplus).

Downvote if you wish, but I'd rather you prove me wrong about the structure of the two working the same way. =)

From the title and the preview thumbnail, i thought this was going to be something WAY different.

I'm pretty sure that makes me a pretty terrible person.

Seriously though, this was nothing less than an excellently made advert for christianity, and no one realises it!

Seriously! The first guy he met with a different cupboard? Horizontal black and white. That's right, he places BLACK (devil) and WHITE (god) on the same level! They both show up at Sanjeev's house wearing identical suits, clearly indicating overtones of the sterile perfection in "Equilibrium". He's got a microwave on his dressing table, clearly used to torture small animals. He tells Sanjeev that "if you want you can borrow my manual" and what does Sanjeev do? That's right, he flips out, starts talking in tongues, he's clearly possessed by some sort of demon.

He goes round to his uncle's and he sees a purple drawer. The colour of the tempest, bringing disarray and wild commotion into his life. It's clearly the colour of the dreaded gay. Calling up his nephew to play football? Sounds like a paedophile to me.

So he builds his own cupboard, and we see the inevitable result - he has become such a twisted terrible person that people are disgusted by his presence. Shunned by his own family and strangers on the street he takes to mindless acts of violence. He experiments with cupboards, makes a deformed monstrosity which the devil compells him to destroy and finally settles on a cupboard with all the colours OF THE GAY FLAG. He puts his own cupboard on a public walkway to try and advertise his travesty to others, and when someone trips over his cupboard, he kicks theirs into a river. Vandal. Probably raped one of those girls too.

Eventually the sad ending to the story, he begins to disregard and disrespect his parents even more, he's beyond help. They probably got him a little starter cupboard set from matalan but he didn't care. You can clearly see him locking them in a devilish prison made from their own cupboards at 6:56. They become old and die in this prison and never see the light of day again. He keeps a picture of them on his GAY CUPBOARD for ever more, torturing their restless souls which were never allowed to find peace.

Then he showed all of his gay friends.

Christianity, guys, it fucking works.

>> ^ObsidianStorm:
You know, I'm getting kind of sick of this - you don't have to apologize FOR EVERYTHING. The guy asked a question that the interviewee didn't like, he expressed it, done deal. No harm, no foul. Geezus - grow some fucking skin kids.

At least his apology was more of a "Hey, I was joking and it didn't work out," rather than "I'm a terrible person who made an horrible, awful mistake and I'm so sorry."

His question to the guy in line was at the time clearly a completely innocent goof, but the loser who'd been standing there for 3 days just had to get his Star Trek panties all up in a bunch.

He seems like an interesting guy to know and a terrible person to know well.