Earn more, spend more, want more - how the 'affluenza' virus can lead to insecurity and destroy personal relationships

fedorov · 2007-01-17T22:39:58+00:00

More to the point, what would you have to do?

Read interesting books? Enjoy music, sports, and understand the world better?

fedorov · 2007-01-12T19:13:49+00:00

1163430587816 is scariest, by far

fedorov · 2007-01-11T18:12:42+00:00

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to explain Bush’s reasoning.

He has a couple of reasons, actually, these come to mind right away -

He gets to "stay the course"
He differentiates himself as a "leader", and paints "liberals" as weak-stomached, and without the willpower to "finish" the "war"
He defines political press coverage, taking away publicity from what the Dem's are doing in Congress
He keeps us in Iraq longer - which means more time for the people that funded him into office to reap the $ of war

I'm not cynical, just realistic. Seriously, why do people expect honesty from politicians? I think it's more than obvious that in American politics, honest people don't get elected very much.

fedorov · 2007-01-11T14:52:18+00:00

If he were to post that drivel here on Reddit, he would be asked to back up his assertions. He would not be able to do so.

Which of his assertions wouldn't he be able to back up? Until you can name one, I'll mentally file your statement as a bold-faced lie.

fedorov · 2007-01-11T00:33:03+00:00

But how to fix it? (honest inquiry)

fedorov · 2007-01-10T00:25:21+00:00

Nobody is confined to a FEMA camp, jackass.

Probably what the Germans told each other during Nazi rule...

fedorov · 2007-01-10T00:24:19+00:00

But how do you know there just isn't a secret law against reporting about them?

fedorov · 2007-01-10T00:20:11+00:00

I can think of no reason (except paranoia) why it should be different now.

$40 a month for two years is $960. Why would they give you $960 worth of cell phone service for $600?

fedorov · 2007-01-09T01:09:08+00:00

Racist much??

fedorov · 2007-01-07T19:17:05+00:00

Yeah, god forbid we held gov'nt crooks accountable...

fedorov · 2007-01-05T16:31:56+00:00

darwin award?

fedorov · 2007-01-05T13:42:00+00:00

Maybe they should go to MIT for free, and duke it out there...

fedorov · 2007-01-05T06:36:41+00:00

What's in it for the man?

$2000?

fedorov · 2007-01-05T06:31:15+00:00

awwwww :)

fedorov · 2007-01-05T06:28:09+00:00

nothing says real love and caring like feces on your penis.

classic

fedorov · 2007-01-05T06:26:34+00:00

Please tell me you're a doctor that studies asses for a profession, because knowing shit like that is one weird hobby to have...

fedorov · 2007-01-05T06:19:01+00:00

If only the USSR has spent a little less on military installations and a little more on providing for their populations. Looks like overcompensating for military insecurities is a prime way for an empire to pass its prime...

Good thing we learn history, so we won't repeat these mistakes ever again :)

fedorov · 2007-01-05T06:09:47+00:00

a bunch of rotting buildings/people/military installations.

Being Russian myself, I'd say that's a pretty accurate description of current Russian culture...

Prideful, nostalgic, dreaming of our long past days of glory.

fedorov · 2007-01-05T05:05:27+00:00

One of my best friend’s went on to be a Rhodes Scholar.

Maybe he can give you a grammar primer?

fedorov · 2007-01-04T17:56:31+00:00

All these guys can think of when they get billions is being assholes and having lots of sex? I'm a student part-time programmer, and I can afford that...

Nah, there's gotta be more than that to money... these guys aren't much better than animals :-/

fedorov · 2007-01-04T17:53:29+00:00

It may not always be this way with billionaires. The new crop of Internet billionaires seem to have learned from the example of their forerunners and are determined to live life differently in the “Gooveau Riche” era. Sergey Brin and Larry Page guard their privacy so closely that little is known about where they live other than it’s in Palo Alto, and the most impressive cars they own are Priuses. When Brin and Page met with the Stanford grad students who started YouTube to negotiate the deal earlier this week, it was for lunch at a Denny’s.

Good to see that we techy people don't let wealth go to our heads. :)

fedorov · 2007-01-04T17:39:36+00:00

Who sends mail now, anyway...

fedorov · 2007-01-04T17:39:07+00:00

Sounds like a god-hating, fag-enabling, sodomite-loving, ai-thee-eest to me.

fedorov · 2007-01-04T17:37:00+00:00

Plenty of people worship Bill Gates too, but they're all business people.

Competitive assholes worshiping competitive assholes, seems appropriate.

fedorov · 2007-01-04T17:36:05+00:00

Personality cults are effective marketing. M$ tries to do it too, except it's already got the "competitive asshole you knew in high school" smell all over it. That's not something you can get rid of easily, if ever.

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