That's interesting...but the jury is in on Subliminal messages, they simply do not work. What works is words and propaganda. They don't need subliminal messaging to control us, we're already docile cows gobbling up whatever they wanna throw at us. Especially on the internet where you can get a cult following going with some bullshit video and some bullshit facts, thank you 9/11 Truthers for proving that one.

I don't get how we can't make a viral video with this sort of impact that helps our own lives? I mean why can't we put something together about how the government has been driven underground in the 80s and has been waging secret Wars? Or how about right now...Obama is waging a secret war in Africa and we're just in the dark about it, how is that allowed to continue? I say we elect him and impeach him...Obama 2012!

>> ^Payback:

>> ^shveddy:
See! See! I knew it! They're making mini black holes that are going to end up in long parabolic orbits through the earth, gobbling up a bit more of the earths mass with each passing until there is nothing left but a hollow shell. Aah, stop playing God!
Obviously I'm joking, but brownie points if anyone can tell me which shit scifi novel I read in high school put the idea of internally orbiting black holes destroying the earth in my mind. I can vividly recall it being a very important plot point to some book I've read, I just can't remember where I got it from.
Love these PHD comics, keep posting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Cantos
The "Big Mistake of '08" would be a black hole that dropped into the earth.


In no way are the Hyperion novels "shit scifi!" I will fight people!

>> ^shveddy:

See! See! I knew it! They're making mini black holes that are going to end up in long parabolic orbits through the earth, gobbling up a bit more of the earths mass with each passing until there is nothing left but a hollow shell. Aah, stop playing God!
Obviously I'm joking, but brownie points if anyone can tell me which shit scifi novel I read in high school put the idea of internally orbiting black holes destroying the earth in my mind. I can vividly recall it being a very important plot point to some book I've read, I just can't remember where I got it from.
Love these PHD comics, keep posting.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Cantos

The "Big Mistake of '08" would be a black hole that dropped into the earth.

See! See! I knew it! They're making mini black holes that are going to end up in long parabolic orbits through the earth, gobbling up a bit more of the earths mass with each passing until there is nothing left but a hollow shell. Aah, stop playing God!

Obviously I'm joking, but brownie points if anyone can tell me which shit scifi novel I read in high school put the idea of internally orbiting black holes destroying the earth in my mind. I can vividly recall it being a very important plot point to some book I've read, I just can't remember where I got it from.

Love these PHD comics, keep posting.

Neil Gaiman wrote about this in one of his Sandman comics... a student from a necropolis went on a "field trip" to participate in this rare ritual done where burying and burning are out of the question. In the comic the bones of the interred were ground up in a mortar and mixed with blood and corn meal as the last step,then the attendants would sit around and have a small meal and trade stories with the gore still on their hands as a sign of respect to the departed.

"Or we can throw you to the vultures who will tear up your corpse-Gobble Gobble Gobble,which will be a bit of a shock if she's not quite dead!"

The video should have ended with the dog promptly gobbling up the delicious snack.

The good thing about tuna is the dolphin.
>> ^deathcow:

Hey, you gotta lift heavy metals to gain muscle.>> ^direpickle:
>> ^deathcow:
She eats clean. She'll gobble a can of tuna while her coworkers share a pizza.

Mmm, mercury poisoning.

Hey, you gotta lift heavy metals to gain muscle.>> ^direpickle:

>> ^deathcow:
She eats clean. She'll gobble a can of tuna while her coworkers share a pizza.

Mmm, mercury poisoning.

>> ^deathcow:

She eats clean. She'll gobble a can of tuna while her coworkers share a pizza.


Mmm, mercury poisoning.

She eats clean. She'll gobble a can of tuna while her coworkers share a pizza.

1. Apple's pricing is not that far out of line when you actually build PCs with high end parts including a nice case etc. the perception that they have luxury pricing mostly comes from their competitors being Dell and HP who sell mostly underpowered PCs to ignorant morons who look at the price tag first.

2. Most of the people who tell me I *need* to get an Apple couldn't tell RAM from a hard disk.

3. Apple's cool factor makes me vomit, and you are a marketing victim gobbling down on Satan's cock if you waste your time telling people to switch to Apple.

Unemployment has went down some, but they don't qualify that. Some people haven't found work in years, and they may not be counted. Some people may be employed, but at half their previous wage. Etc. The measurement for this may even be the same, but on the whole while the numbers are going down it doesn't appear that the people who've been affected by the initial crash are actually recovered from it. Whether due to unemployment, partial employment, or that they were so damaged by the crash that they are going to take a lot longer to recover to some kind of sustainable living, or at least behave like they expect the living to be sustainable.


On the reverse side of the coin, the rich were telling everyone how they need low tax rates to create jobs. They kept sticking to that message and still are. Evidence of rather high unemployment and people getting by with less than they used to earn shows that while taxes are low, they are not creating jobs. And here we have evidence that they are actually earning substantial amounts more than the rest during the recovery. No matter what the reason for this is, the plan is not working if the richest people in the country get 93% of the recovery...that least 7% for the rest of the 99%.....that's RECOVERY from a crash, not in addition to reaching the old levels and then more on top..it's not even back to where it was and they are getting 93% of it.


The bailout may factor into their gains, but that just shows that the government should have done something different. Showing a gain in the market that virtually no one in the market actually gets is not helping the country. The rich can not possibly circulate as much money as regularly as a bunch of normal people living pay check to pay check. Yet the programs that showed the most growth, which was coincidentally unemployment was hated by near everyone. It generated 1.6 dollars for every dollar spent into it. I haven't seen numbers on showing what the bail out generated for each dollar spent into it, I would assume it was all gobbled up and squirreled away before anyone could record it.

Arguably the nation had the best results following WW2, everyone was generally earning more. The rich had to invest back into the company or face losing most of their earnings to taxes, meaning employees of worth earned more in line with the CEOs and such. Tax rates were high, but people could also live on one salary and raise 2-3 kids often more quite easily. We are steadily moving away from that mindset and moving into the mindset of "the people with the money know what to do" but they leave off the ".......to earn themselves more money no matter the cost."

Sorry but you obviously don't understand anything about Medicare fraud, because virtually 100% of Medicare fraud is perpetuated by the Doctors themselves NOT the patients.

Don't believe me look at your last hospital bill and ask them why it cost you $100 for a pillow $300 for a blanket $1000 for a pair of forceps, $500 for a meal.

I get shots at my doctor for pain that cost me $2500 a shot I asked the insurance company why they cost so much and they said they were listed as "experimental" so I asked my Doctor what they were and he told me they were just normal lidocaine shots like a Dentist uses, they probably cost the Doctor $20 bucks each.

And last time I checked Doctors don't need welfare.

>> ^quantumushroom:

Just Medicare fraud costs us 60 billion dollars a year. A YEAR. And no one seems to give a damn. Do you? So yeah, the "poor" with their two cars, appliances, 3 tvs, and most owning their own homes should be paying more than ZERO. Maybe they'll be less tolerant of their brethren grifting the system.






>> ^rottenseed:
That's kind of silly. I mean, here is a person that would be affected negatively by the tax adjustments he's proposing for the cause of aiding the US...and yet here you are, a nobody, with no money, nobody knows who the hell you are telling him that he's wrong. He's telling you that nobody in the super rich community is paying enough. He knows. He knows a lot better than any one of us. I don't get why people like you side with the uber-rich that don't want to pay more in taxes, unless you are a wealthy miser yourself. To be honest I don't even have a problem paying the taxes I pay. And increasing my tax bracket certainly isn't going to keep me from trying to make more money. The only thing I care about is where the money goes. That's where my distrust kicks in. Spending on a country's needs is fine, but squandering is not.
I do agree with you on the point that it shouldn't all be going toward social programs. Especially ones that have no way or desire to stop people milking the system. >> ^quantumushroom:
Ah, Gates. Another zillionaire apparently unaware the wealthy already pay the most in taxes, and at higher tax rates.
It's the 'bottom' 50% presently paying no income tax but gobbling up plenty of "free services" that should be chipping in.

"What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice." ---T. Sowell

World War 2. Without expanding the income tax, we'd all be speaking German now.>> ^yourhydra:

agree. more taxes? name one time a tax solved a complex social issue. read a book people.
>> ^quantumushroom:
Ah, Gates. Another zillionaire apparently unaware the wealthy already pay the most in taxes, and at higher tax rates.
It's the 'bottom' 50% presently paying no income tax but gobbling up plenty of "free services" that should be chipping in.

"What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice." ---T. Sowell

agree. more taxes? name one time a tax solved a complex social issue. read a book people.

>> ^quantumushroom:

Ah, Gates. Another zillionaire apparently unaware the wealthy already pay the most in taxes, and at higher tax rates.
It's the 'bottom' 50% presently paying no income tax but gobbling up plenty of "free services" that should be chipping in.

"What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice." ---T. Sowell