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Comment · 13 years ago
Not only is it not intuitive, it's soul killing slow.
Comment · 13 years ago
Don't waste your time.

Just a handful of vanilla C and B quality vids.

Comment · 13 years ago
Just goes to show the kings new clothes can fool the 1%.
Comment · 13 years ago
Education has been on a lets get as top heavy as we can kick for years. Go to any educational institution, anywhere in the US. Check out the oak paneling in the administrative offices. Check out the explosion of administrative positions. Check out the rise of administrator salaries. That is where the money goes while class sizes increase, teacher salaries nosedive, and essential core subjects get trivialized or cut.
Comment · 13 years ago
Typical 1% rant designed to flumox the 99%.

Overlooks that teacher pensions is a legitimate expense if you just happen to be running schools, like CA is.

Just goes to show, when you want to lie, lie big.

Take away teachers' pensions, and you might as well say goodbye to attracting any new teachers or retaining the good ones.

As Dr. Martin Luther King worked so hard for, everyone, which includes teachers, has a right to a decent living which includes a decent retirement.

Comment · 13 years ago
True, true. This also applies to most game publishing houses, not just the mothership.

There is a group-think mob mentality that ravenously follows the whims of top management as 'hip' and mere players are referred to as scrubs and considered not worthy to make suggestions or criticize.

Go to any popular MMO forum and criticize any portion of the games supposed backstory, and prepare for the waterfall of developer lead fanboy rage in response.

There are various tropes baked into this culture. All the 'bros' know that universally pet classes must always be second class citizens. Don't overlook how pay to win, and lottery style 'mystery boxes' that asian cultures are so fond of, almost overnight became fixtures in almost every online game now.

Comment · 13 years ago
We are. The laws have been passed. Our (US) savings are now up for grabs. In return, you get some worthless stock.
Comment · 13 years ago
As we speak, laws are/were passed here in the US that will make it ok for predatory banks to confisticate your savings and give you some worthless stock in exchange.

It's open season on savers now.

Comment · 13 years ago
Contemporary dance is to now what 'modern dance' was to the 50s and 60s, just bad dancers putting on really bad productions everyone wants to forget as soon as possible.
Comment · 13 years ago
I can save them a few hundred million bucks, mix in McGuffins every few paragraphs, wrap things up with a shaggy dog ending. Include gratuitous explosions, car/plane/train crashes, and rescue the chick,puppy,small children between McGuffins.
Comment · 13 years ago
Well duh. Find one CEO of any Fortune 500 company who does not.
Comment · 14 years ago
Public efforts regarding Mental Health have been almost completely obliterated by the 1% in their greedy rush to take everything. MH is at the heart of this sick young man's tradgedy and the ever more frequent serial killings.

I don't buy all the victim scenarios for this fellow. He was smart, he knew what he was getting into. He knew attacking the established status quo would have dire consequences. He had plenty of opportunities to change his path to a less risky one. He knew going into this that to challenge these people would bring concrete and powerful counter attacks aimed at him.

What he did not know was how to cope with depression, how and were to get help, and was too ingrained with the imposed taboos to seek help.

Comment · 14 years ago
So where can I get my Aaron Swartz t-shirt?
Comment · 14 years ago
This kid had it all, fame, fortune, brains.

So what we wrong? Why was he so unhappy?

Comment · 14 years ago
That kind of money is tiddlywinks for city's and states, the real ongoing scam is what is called the 'capital expenditure budgets' of these orgnizations. Massive sums of money, that tend to go no-bid, or fixed bid contracts with the authorities buddies. Services to constituents get cut, but the capital exp. budget never gets cut, it is always increased.

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