Why didn't they try different haircuts for Picard?

I'm looking forward to this, despite this bizarre promo. His movies are always intriguing, with complex relationships between the characters and strange plots. That last one "The Skin I live In" (El Piel Que Habito) was truly strange. My favorite is probably "Volver" with Penelope Cruz. Check out "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" from 1988, it has a young Antonio Banderas with a Rick Astley haircut.

IF YOU THOUGHT HEALTH CARE WAS EXPENSIVE BEFORE, WAIT UNTIL OBAMARXCARE MAKES IT FREE!


Although some of the "fiscal cliff" taxes can be avoided through a deal made in Congress, new ObamaCare taxes are guaranteed to kick in on January 1, amounting to $268 billion tax hike.

The Obamacare Medical Device Tax – a $20 billion tax increase: Medical device manufacturers employ 409,000 people in 12,000 plants across the country. Obamacare imposes a new 2.3 percent excise tax on gross sales – even if the company does not earn a profit in a given year. In addition to killing small business jobs and impacting research and development budgets, this will increase the cost of your health care – making everything from pacemakers to prosthetics more expensive.

The Obamacare “Special Needs Kids Tax” – a $13 billion tax increase: The 30-35 million Americans who use a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) at work to pay for their family’s basic medical needs will face a new government cap of $2,500 (currently the accounts are unlimited under federal law, though employers are allowed to set a cap).

There is one group of FSA owners for whom this new cap will be particularly cruel and onerous: parents of special needs children. There are several million families with special needs children in the United States, and many of them use FSAs to pay for special needs education. Tuition rates at one leading school that teaches special needs children in Washington, D.C. (National Child Research Center) can easily exceed $14,000 per year. Under tax rules, FSA dollars can be used to pay for this type of special needs education. This Obamacare tax provision will limit the options available to these families.

The Obamacare Surtax on Investment Income – a $123 billion tax increase: This is a new, 3.8 percentage point surtax on investment income earned in households making at least $250,000 ($200,000 single). This would result in the following top tax rates on investment income:


The Obamacare “Haircut” for Medical Itemized Deductions – a $15.2 billion tax increase: Currently, those Americans facing high medical expenses are allowed a deduction to the extent that those expenses exceed 7.5 percent of adjusted gross income (AGI). This tax increase imposes a threshold of 10 percent of AGI. By limiting this deduction, Obamacare widens the net of taxable income for the sickest Americans. This tax provision will most harm near retirees and those with modest incomes but high medical bills.

The Obamacare Medicare Payroll Tax Hike --an $86.8 billion tax increase: The Medicare payroll tax is currently 2.9 percent on all wages and self-employment profits. Under this tax hike, wages and profits exceeding $200,000 ($250,000 in the case of married couples) will face a 3.8 percent rate instead. This is a direct marginal income tax hike on small business owners, who are liable for self-employment tax in most cases.

Not only does this tax increase costs on companies, it also increases costs on hospitals, doctors and people in need of medical treatment that requires medical devices to be used. As a consequence of this, biomedical or medical device engineering firms are already laying off workers who develop crucial medical products due to the "unforeseen" costs, or in other words, the costs of ObamaCare. Not to mention, the more money these companies pay to the government, the less money they have to invest in research and development.

With this new medical device tax, students who pay large sums of money to get degrees in the field of biomedical engineering, just like doctors, will no longer see the benefits of going into the field and therefore, we will have a shortage of engineers developing new medical device technology. The medical device tax is a death sentence for American medical innovation.

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It doesn't help that she has a man's haircut either.

>> ^CrushBug:

Well, that could have been a lot worse.


My thought exactly as he was going under. Shave and a haircut!

Thirteen seconds, and I'm done. I can't look at this waste of skin and his dead-animal haircut any longer than that.

This is probably the first person I'd say looks better in a mohawk than any other haircut.
*nohomo

....Seriously? Graphic tees? Starbucks? Hoodies? These aren't hipsters. They're young people. Unless you're wearing a handlebar moustache, a hitler youth haircut, or a pork pie hat (to name the biggest offenders), you're not fitting into the "hipster" category.

It's hard to pull off "menacing" with that haircut.

Right to Work Laws are a fucking joke. They should be called Anything but Right to Work, in Texas we are Right to Work and that basically means my employers can do whatever the hell they like to their employees they can cut your benefits at anytime without notice, they can cut your hours, your vacation, your sick time, and they can fire you for ANY reason whatsoever if you sneeze wrong in your bosses direction he can fire you, he can fire you if he doesn't like your haircut or the clothes you wear. I've was fired because I got hit by a frickin car and shattered my ankle and had to miss work until I was recovered didn't matter that it wasn't my fault or that it was well documented and I had doctors excuses I didn't show up for work so they fired me end of story. Fuck Right to Work Laws! Unions were the best thing that ever happened for employee's rights and now they are taking them away so they can make the U.S into a machine state like China. They better start building nets around all the buildings like they do at Foxconn because it's gonna be raining employees pretty soon.

>> ^silvercord:

What's Neil doin' with the Captain Kangaroo haircut?


chicks dig it

What's Neil doin' with the Captain Kangaroo haircut? I guess it was the rage. It's hard to believe how much emotion that man can get out of that guitar.

I'll buy them a bar of soap and a haircut. Filthy, smelly artists. And yet this is probably cheaper than incarceration.

I've maintained some form of facial hair since I was a freshman in High School (at that point it was ridiculously long/tall but sparse sideburns). I hate the way I look after a clean shave, and hate razor shaving in general, so the most I'll ever do is trim down to stubble with an electric trimmer.

Most of the time, I'm rocking the Abe Lincoln beard / Amish chinstrap (no trimming/shaving to make it artificially even, just natural varying height from jawline up the cheeks). I used to shave my moustache area with an electric razor, but I've gotten too lazy for even that so I now just trim it down to stubble when it gets ratty. I'd like to just go full-on and incorporate it into a full beard, but unfortunately my moustache still seems a bit sparse compared to my beard at 30 years old. I'll get there eventually I think.

Occasionally people will suggest/hint that they think I should shave, which I suppose is the 2010's equivalent of "get a haircut, and get a real job". But personally, I prefer the way I look with a beard and I hate the feeling and hassle of regular shaving, so it is an easy choice to ignore the naysayers and keep the beard going.

I'm amazed at how many guys say stuff like "doesn't it feel itchy to have a beard like that?" -- in my experience the answer is NO, not at all; the itchy part is between a fresh shave and stubble. So if I were to shave regularly, that would be every day, all the time. Screw that noise...