Recent content by Prometheus

agree - but I'd add that they 'award' who they want to use to sell even more records in the future... it's just advertising, as is mtv, academy awards, etc. I wouldn't have known this singer if you hadn't mentioned the song - typical stuff marketed to teenie females - cute but vapid...

true enough. no other place in America quite has that unique blend of rudeness and hostility, filth, massive overcrowding, warzone public schools, murder and rape, ultra-high rents, rats, roaches, and the ever-popular mentally ill homeless people defecating on the sidewalk. new yorkers should...

it's becoming more apparent that, generally, anything supported by Ashcroft is a bad idea.

evidently he did the spelling, too.

That's the point, isn't it - to change the system so that they CAN legally act, so they CAN collate and cross-reference the billions of transactions? If Visa can track billions of transactions, then presumably so can the government. And when they don't have to poll several different...

Inequality of wealth has existed since the dawn of history, and will always continue. Attempts to eliminate it have only, at best, reduced the overall standard of living and bankrupted the society implementing them. THe best that can be hoped for is a system where equal opportunity of wealth...

That is absurd. What other possible purpose could be served by the government compiling this information, if not control over the population? Why else would they do this? A full description of the loss of liberty this might (will) lead to is beyond the scope of this board, and Orwell did a...

Here's the newest one straight out of the 1984 playbook: You Are a Suspect By WILLIAM SAFIRE WASHINGTON — If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will happen to you: Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical...

sorry - that should have read "proves ONE IS a racist..." - it wasn't directed at anyone or intended as an accusation.

the only acceptable statement is that engaging in this discussion proves you are a racist and an anti-semite.

excellent point.

Thanks (no sarcasm :) ) I am not against immigration, just the ridiculous argument 2thick is parroting, that Americans have no right to decide who they live with and who shares the wealth they have created, simply because they were not the first to step on American soil... fwiw, I have...

thank you. kind words are always welcome. your argument is absurd. you are saying that people who have cultivated and built up and developed American land and have built the greatest technological structure in history have no right to determine who they share it with, because nomads occupied...

American Indians immigrated to America from Asia. they too are immigrants, only they were in America before the Europeans, evidently. current Americans were in the US before the Florida Haitians. if you are arguing a superior right of Indians based on time of residence, then current...

walk up to him, nice and friendly, grab his shoulder, and give him a taste of the captain of crush grip - not injury level, just to the severe discomfort point. then hold it and tell him that's a 1 on a 100-scale if he gets out of line. hold 10 more seconds, for effect. he'll get the idea...