^"Well i'd never admit to something i didn't do. Never. Couldn't do it."

I understand that statement as I sit fat and happy behind my computer monitor on my nice chair. The decision isn't nearly as easy when you face the death penalty, and some overworked public defender that is most likely saying you should take the plea. That situation happens a lot. The public defender in most cases tries his best to never go to court...not because he is a bad person but because he is playing the odds. Odds are that if his client goes to trial and loses he dies. He is a public defender so he can't exactly drop all his other cases and focus on this one; so truly, it would be better to lie and go to jail then to die for his client.

I used to have my own overzealous idea of the justice system and how I would behave in it. But once you are behind those bars, and the cold slam of metal clanks behind you and you take your perch on the cold scared concrete floor next to other inmates who scare the living ship out of you; you experience a whole new paradigm. Make no mistake, jail/prison is a horrible, miserable place. When you get there it would take a marvel of a person to remain in their rational mind. The fear, stress, and panic deep in the hallows of your mind are nearly tearing you apart. The DA knows this, and uses it to their full advantage, as do the officers and other inmates. You may think you know how you will act in hell, but until you have been there I wouldn't be so hasty to sum up your actions.

Geeze, people get a bit overworked about this. I feel that permanent body modifications are generally fricken stupid and are more often than not regretted at some stage... but this? It's bloody harmless, let women do it if it makes them feel sexy. Personally, I'm not a fan... a wax down there is dead sexy, but having little crystals that could become dislodged and end up where you'd rather them not is not my idea of fun times.

But the look could be arousing.

But the truth has nothing to do with religion OR moral philosophy. Actual moral behavior comes down each person's cost/benefit.

People value themselves and their immediate lives far more than their soul (which may be judged later) - or their consciously decided rules or morals (rules can be broken if my need is sufficient).

Comfortable middle classes don't murder or steal because of the law - their lives have too much to lose. But regardless of religion, they still cheat on their wives if they feel they can get away with it.

The majority of the pyramid of humanity is poor, uneducated, overworked. And more often religious as they tend to need the emotional support of belief and belonging to cope with their hardships. and yet Crime is higher. Not because of religion, but simply because their personal needs are higher and they have less to lose if caught.

>> ^Avokineok:
I live in The Netherlands. Everytime I'm on Videosift, I get a sense of how bad it must be to be an American.
I see some great entertaiment with all the late night shows, but I feel bad for all of you who have to live in a country that has so many people taking everything said at Fox "News" ("Gossip" might be more appropriate) so seriously..
It seriously makes me said and makes me believe Amerika is not the land of opportunities; it's a land where people with a lot of money tell other people what think.


There's another problem with America Avokineok, as evidenced on this site and that is;

Those who lambaste Rupert Murdoch's abortion, fail to see that they are equally as distracted and led like apes by the other worthless news cunts churning out issue after issue, or other complete scat disguised as something you should have an opinion about. They can;t help it, they have been bred to go for this team or that one, one camp or the other, and are to overworked and indoctrinated to care about the world of the real.

Endless mind-numbing editorials on issues which be merely symptoms of the beast, the emperor with no clothes or skin, for that matter.....The United States will fall in lock-step not unlike the UK did when she was welcomed into the EU against the will of the people, and by mandate of her cunt royal family, god-damned empire-building elitist scumbag fucks that they are. Kill them all, scatter their children's ashes on the dung heap of history.

There is no news-only mind control and endless editorial on the same, to give people the illusion that they have a fucking clue about how the world is run.....liberals are pussies, and conservatives, assholes.

Me, I'm a dick.

That's my 10 cents, praise BOB, Hail Eris, Do What Thou Wilt.

There was a time when I was younger that fast food burgers were simply awesome (or so I felt.) But today, now that I'm in my late thirties, I myself could make a burger on the grill with grass fed meat and my own spices that not only looks just as good as that, but tastes BEYOND better than any fast food burger.

One of these days I'm gonna make a print of a Wopper from a commercial, bring it into a BK and say 'I want this *showing the picture.* And when a get a thin, sloppy, tasteless shit-burger I'll go 'No, that's not the same as 'this'! I want 'THIS'!'

Then again its not like the overworked underpayed kids that work there can do anything about it.

>> ^csnel3:
Yes, rougy, I think I get it.

Fair enough. But you have to admit, it's two different worlds. I'm in Roswell, NM. Aside from the celestial alien problem, we have a crime rate that is disturbingly high, and cops who are sometimes not very thoughtful, because they're underpaid and overworked. Hate to say it, but true.

Ace up there noted that I noticed, as did millions of other people, that a man set himself afire in order to draw attention to an injustice...so I guess his effort was a success...in as much as it drew attention. Did it solve the problem that he gave his life to protest against? Probably not.

That's a pretty big deal, to have that kind of dedication, to believe in something so strongly that you would voluntarily suffer one of the most cruelest fates known to man.

I'm not being cheeky, but the closest thing I can think of is when Data gave his life for Picard.

Vietnam was the prototype to Iraq and Afghanistan. And our country, the USA, is in a lot of trouble because we are watching people rob us blind and we are powerless to stop it because our government is inept and corrupt beyond remediation.

The war machine learned quickly, while the best that we can do is sit around and bitch.

OK..., So after reading all the comments...
It's still choice, as I see fit!
Don't get me wrong, I tip 80% of the time but it dependent on my choice and the level of my bank account.

-ALSO
I believe the restaurants here in Canada charge more for a meal than they do in the US.
An adult meal can cost $12 - $25 before drinks and appetizers depending on the restaurant and the dish served.
Ad the $3-$4 for a bottomless pop, $8-$10 for an Appy, maybe another $5-$7 for a desert
(I'm not even going to count alcoholic drinks, $5-$8 per glass)
That's about $28 - $46 per person for everything. Adding an 18% tip ($5.04 - $6.28 per person) can and is a big deal to the average family.

A budget spender can get away with an average $15-$20 per person at a sit-down cafe, but a family of four (2 adults, 2 kids) still spends about $40-$60 for dinner at a restaurant while fifty dollars will buy you 3 meals a day at home for 3-5 days.

My point with all this is, leaving a tip costs me money. I spend my money as "I" see fit. If for some reason, I don't/can't leave one (this time),it will be my choice. Those which work in this environment (survival of the fittest), learn to give good service or suffer a lower paycheck. If the waiter/waitress is overworked because it is busy and can't give good service is more a reflection on the business/sweatshop for not providing proper staff coverage. It is not my job to compensate for their shortcomings.

I must also mention (off on a tangent): If I am with a larger group, we phone ahead or if it is on-the-spot, we ask if "it will be a problem" before even being seated. Either you can handle our group - or you can't.

>> ^dag:
I do think they cultivate such an environment, perhaps not intentionally in all cases - but the relationship between patients and doctors, in my experience is mostly about domination and control. I'm not against medical science, I am for breaking down the walls between the medical world and consumers.

That is starting to change. The old generation of doctors, especially surgeons do have a paternalistic relationship with their patients. However, for quite a while now, medical education has shifted heavily to a patient centered, team based approach.

And as E_Nygma pointed out, it is great that your births went well. But having worked in Obstetrics and seen some of the fucking complication nightmares that can occur, it is ridiculous for me to even consider a birth without some form of OR and surgical team ready on hand. And there is such a huge shortage of OBs that it's hard to find one who is not overworked and overstressed. They do it out of a sense of duty to their communities and their profession. They sacrifice their personal lives so that in case the shit hits the fan, there's someone there to save you. And it's not that some OB's prefer C-Sections just for their patients for profit. Studies show that a significant portion of OBs prefer, and select C-sections for themselves. It's not some industry trying to screw you out of your money.

And painting epidurals as something unnecessary, and used instead to line the OB's pockets, is so ignorant. You might as well say the same thing of antibiotics, vaccines, and anesthetics in general.

I've never gotten to the point of overworking any particular arm, but I must admit that my cardio has improved greatly.

Yo, I'm smokin herbals till it hurts you
I keep your daughter way out past her curfew
Hard far from commercial
(So what cha mean nigga)
We don't give a fuck when we smoked out
In the land that's doped out [it's like that?] no doubt
From this bomb weed, I cock from the streets
Get you open like buttcheeks, from girls who be freaks
Aiyyo, can I be SWV?
You the One nigga
Rap Shogun, yes E the one
Yo, I'm rollin with a forty pack of niggaz
Get my weed from Branson cause his sack's bigger
Yo give me dap nigga
What I clap lyrically tap call back
Ferocious causin comatoses to collapse
So chinky eyed I see people wavin on a map
I make it hotter than your thermostats (beep beep beep beep)
Bomb MC's with rough megahertz so call me
Funk Doctor verbal starburst, lyrical expert
Your boombox better form a union
Cause I leave your circus overworked, word bond
Niggaz front like they want it
But I be in the five hundred with E steadily gettin blunted
Damn nigga you cool at what you spittin
So why you holdin the blunt so long politickin
Huh, I ace them blunts with the technician
of electrician, I don't got a pot to piss in
But still spend my last on hyrdroglycerin
I keep it live no jive rollin Dutches
that's Masters like the Furious Five
I, keep your crew chinky eyed, for bitches actin dog
(Can you hit it from the back?) Why not, while we toke on this

I smoked with a lot of college, students
Most of em, wasn't graduatin and they knew it
You know the weed slang? Yeah boy I speak it fluent
I light your college dorm with my entourage from Newark
Bigger they come, harder they fall
That goes for, knuckleheads, MC's, pussy walls and all
I lit my first L before I started to crawl
I got my ass whupped when I had my first brawl
But things changed since I was twelve years old
I specialize in wreckin mics and area codes
Now, PPP the kinda niggaz that'll bug witcha
Smoke bud witcha, later on stick a sluginya
Everything that's like green ain't the bomb bitch
I got different forms to make you lose your calm bitch
Read my lips, you ain't hittin unless you got
Ten on it, get on it, or get the fuck out my cypher

Reading more it does seem have a design flaw - it's a shame Apple choose not to acknowledge this broadly, instead in some cases blame the consumer - I keep seeing some fanbois on the forums complain that people with cracked hinges 'overworked the hinge that's why it broke' but if you read the problems, it seems Revision A had a big issue with it's hinge...

It's funny how we can take something so "industrial", overworked and watered down and lay it on velvet and treat it like something so amazing - I'd rather have the pure 100% peices they started with at the beginning before they added the copper and other metals.

It's obviously a visual metaphor for the atrocities committed against the working class by the uncaring, callous elite.

The meat represents the overworked, impoverished blue collar masses - Stripped to the bone; to their very souls, of any pleasure or satisfaction in their grueling lifestyle. They pile together in close quarters, wedged against one another, cramped into their diminutive housing, without hope for a better tomorrow, because eventually they will be eaten. You can no longer even tell them apart. Steaks look the same, miserable and drooping. They do not think for themselves, they simply sit, and they rot away, and they wait for their total consumption.

The house is the greater world in which they live. The once beautiful draping is now tattered and worn. No thought has been given to its proper care, because eventually it will just be replaced with something new and innovative, yet cold and unfamiliar. The light of the world grows dim with time - The sun does not shine into their world like it used to. And it only grows dimmer as time marches onward. An artificial light source has been supplied by the elite, no doubt with empty promises that it will be sufficient for the masses, yet it too has grown frayed - A mere shadow of its once hollow glory. But somehow this does not bother the meat, because it was never comparable with the sun anyway.

Lastly, the powerful master sits in his comfortable chair, intentionally oblivious to the meat which lies right in front of him. His luxuries are a far cry from the frigid, industrial plastic in which the majority of society resides. He is deliberately distracted from the rotting meat by entertaining himself with novel items which he consumes with vigor, believing it to be of grand substance, but it is empty and bare. Eventually, he will devour one of his many morsels, exploit it for its essentials, and then excrete the rest. What the unthinking majority do not realize is how powerful their numbers are compared to him.

So in short, lol, that's pretty funny!!

Actually, it's
"I think what you fucking meant was:
"Ah, come on... Grammar Nazis - it's pretty original."
Alternatively, perhaps some ellipses would suffice, but I have no fucking idea what those commas are doing there."

not
"I think what you fucking meant was:
Ah come on: grammar nazis. It's pretty original.
Or perhaps some ellipses would suffice. But I have no fucking idea what those commas are doing there."

You will notice that I omitted starting a sentence with a conjunction. Furthermore, "pretty" (adverb) is overworked and has no place in a serious discourse such as this, therefore usage of "fairly" is advised.

>> ^chilaxe:
>> ^syncron:
Ah come on, grammar nazis, it's pretty original.


I think what you fucking meant was:
Ah come on: grammar nazis. It's pretty original.
Or perhaps some ellipses would suffice. But I have no fucking idea what those commas are doing there.

typical chav.. just the one (overworked) braincell. kept warm by his chav cap!