On 1/24/2013 5:39 AM, Kenneth wrote:
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_=27Yadgar=27_Bleimann?= <yaz### [at] gmxde> wrote:
>> ... and, luckily,
>> we still have no real right-wing TV or radio stations in our country! If
>> there is such thing like a redneck culture here, our rednecks are much
>> less bold than the US ones, as almost every election shows...
>>
>
> WOW, I have no idea what that's like. I think I'd like to move there! Here in
> the US, such things have a wildly-disproportionate influence. So much so that it
> feels almost...normal!
>
I would go farther than that and say that one of the reasons things like 
"onion news" and some other completely made up parody shows that have 
popped up, then failed to stay, in the last few years, in the US, have 
done so because its nearly impossible to compete with the kinds of 
insane nonsense on the supposedly "real" shows.

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On 1/25/2013 8:56 AM, Cousin Ricky wrote:
> "Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> WOW, I have no idea what that's like. I think I'd like to move there! Here in
>> the US, such things have a wildly-disproportionate influence. So much so that it
>> feels almost...normal!
>
> So normal that they even call President Obama a liberal.  If Ronald Reagan ran
> today, he would be too left-wing to get elected.
>
Hell, he would be so "left wing" for some of these nuts, he would be 
lucky not to be called communist, and lynched.

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> Sometimes I wish that Peak Oil and the following total collapse of
> industrial civilization would rid the world of the Internet... then
> permaculture gardens, bicycles (if not even donkeys - I never had, and
> probably will have the chance to visit Afghanistan, but perhaps this way
> Afghanistan comes to us all...) would be far more important than
> programming languages, smartphones and Twitter accounts! And also
> POV-Ray...
>
Yeah, thing is, they kind of tried something like that, a few times. The 
last one they burned nearly every book they could find, including the 
ones on mechanics, architecture, medicine, etc., etc., and we are still 
finding shit in ruins that make us go, "Wow! Imagine if they hadn't had 
to hand make every gear for one of these things, instead of mass 
producing them!", today. Internet isn't the problem. Its sort of a 
free-form libertarian paradise. Which means that, when people do end up 
controlling it, on some level, what you get isn't paradise, or vast 
collections of good information, but the digital version of the novel 
Snow Crash, where everyone has gated communities, and every crazy ass 
idea there is has its own walled garden, where they all talk about how 
everyone else is crazy. The only difference is, there are no armed 
guards (technically), or robot guard dogs, so you won't get shot, 
bitten, etc., if you walk into the wrong place. You might, though, say 
something that contradicts local idiocies, and get your posts banned.

While not always a hard and fast rule, this last result is usually a 
damn good sign that everything there is pure bullshit, that different 
opinions, never mind actual facts, are considered hazardous material, 
and the people running the blog/site/service/etc. are *probably* several 
dozen bricks short of a pile of bricks, never mind a wall.

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Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:09:20 -0500, Cousin Ricky wrote:
>
> > Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
> >> One nice thing happened. One of the company security guards wished me a
> >> happy holiday "back home" on the forth of July. He then asked if we
> >> celebrated Independence Day in England.
> >
> > He didn't!
> >
> > I wonder if he wonders if New Yorkers celebrate Robert E. Lee Day, or if
> > the French celebrate the battle of Dien Bien Phu.
>
> Heh, well, in Virginia they celebrated Martin Luther King day (in the
> state senate IIRC) by honoring General Stonewall Jackson..... m-/

I don't believe it!

I mean, that people already invented a facepalm emoticon! m-/

and it conveys it message beautifully LOL

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On 25/01/2013 5:09 PM, Cousin Ricky wrote:
> Stephen<mca### [at] aolcom>  wrote:
>> >One nice thing happened. One of the company security guards wished me a
>> >happy holiday "back home" on the forth of July. He then asked if we
>> >celebrated Independence Day in England.
> He didn't!

He did, you know.

But don't be too hard on him. He was being friendly.

-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:

>
> Heh, well, in Virginia they celebrated Martin Luther King day (in the
> state senate IIRC) by honoring General Stonewall Jackson..... m-/
>

OMG! Didn't know that--and I live here. My own reaction (aside from being
shocked to the core) is..."Well, that's typical!"

Moving to Europe is looking better and better!

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On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:44:31 -0500, nemesis wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:09:20 -0500, Cousin Ricky wrote:
>>
>> > Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
>> >> One nice thing happened. One of the company security guards wished
>> >> me a happy holiday "back home" on the forth of July. He then asked
>> >> if we celebrated Independence Day in England.
>> >
>> > He didn't!
>> >
>> > I wonder if he wonders if New Yorkers celebrate Robert E. Lee Day, or
>> > if the French celebrate the battle of Dien Bien Phu.
>>
>> Heh, well, in Virginia they celebrated Martin Luther King day (in the
>> state senate IIRC) by honoring General Stonewall Jackson..... m-/
> 
> I don't believe it!
> 
> I mean, that people already invented a facepalm emoticon! m-/
> 
> and it conveys it message beautifully LOL

I borrowed it from Greta Christina - it's so fitting and appropriate, 
that I decided to help spread that one around a bit. :)

Jim

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Hi,

I am living in Jamaica. If the se fundamentalist Christians outside of Jamaica
are harassing, trust me, those inside Jamaica (an export from the USA) are even
worse!

They control the Jamaican society, cause that women are afraid of abortion and
get plenty babies (because unhappy persons are the food religions need), and go
even as far as telling the people what to do with each other in the nights and
what not. They make many people here highly ignorant of persons who don't share
their ideas.

Enough, I just wanted to mention this.

Best is to laugh about their stupidity. Let's all remember, it were the
Christians who were teaching in the medieval times, that the Bible would say the
Earth is a flat disc...

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Hi(gh)!

(I simply love thread necromancing...)

On 23.01.13 18:14, clipka wrote:

> Germany is a comparatively sane place, as far as that goes.

Yes, so it was eleven years ago... now, we're here on the verge of 
plunging into a neo-fascist dystopia - like vast parts of the world!

See you in Khyberspace!

-- 
VBI BENE, IBI BACTRIA!

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Hi(gh)!

On 24.01.13 16:06, Thomas de Groot wrote:

> Europe is not such a bad place... ;-)

Yes, it used to be...

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

-- 
VBI BENE, IBI BACTRIA!

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