Recent content by Theseus32

Thinking of it, at the end of the day they were telling stories. >thatfeel when Saturday morning cartoons are no longer a thing.

Bob, if I ever end up in the Boston area, I owe you a drink sir. *single manly tear* To Nintendo Power and all the shit they made us buy. And being mindless corporate zombies. You will forever be missed.

Yeah I'll freely admit that world governments are every bit as corrupt, if not more so. Any time you allow any kind of campaign contributions you're essentially allowing institutionalized bribery. Money is speech my ass. And again, not pointing fingers. This is most, if not all governments on...

And none of them will see a day of jail time on account of owning every judicial system on the planet. They'll send a few scapegoats in middle management up the river and then get back to wallpapering their homes with Mondrians. Case in point, United Technologies. Caught bang to rights...

Honestly, what bugs me is that if these are the supposed "job creators" then why don't they use that massive pile of cash to... create some jobs? other references http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jul/21/global-elite-tax-offshore-economy...

Actually 20 trillion is a VERY conservative estimate. They're saying it could be over 36 trillion, so potentially over half of the annual GWP, just sitting there. And again that's not counting tax shelters that are harder to track, like billion dollar homes and yachts made of caviar. Hidden...

To further put it into perspective, if this money had been being taxed, if these shelters had been eliminated, there would be no debt crisis in africa, spain, greece, the UK, the US or anywhere else on earth.

So yeah. One week after libor we have this little chestnut. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jul/21/offshore-wealth-global-economy-tax-havens >tl;dr it turns out that in addition to treating the global lending system as their personal *****, the ultra rich, with the assistance of...

Appeal to authority and a false dichotomy. The logical fallacy thing works both ways. Plus assuming that american conservatives would rather let ten guilty men walk to save an innocent is a tad optimistic when current trends indicate just the opposite is true. That they'd rather execute 10...

Exactly right. And as Friedrich Nietzsche, the founding fathers and Jesus Christ once said, "This shit is so obvious, there's no way anyone would ever be dumb or greedy enough to misinterpret it."

Also, while you're bitching about all these fictional attempts to "take your guns away" (an action, I will remind you, that would DRAMATICALLY decrease violent crime) the US government has actually legitimately overturned quite a few sections of the bill of rights, most notably the first...

Also, the ammendment reads, "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Careful readers will notice it says bugger-all about protecting your right to fire 600 rounds a minute, yet makes...

Just a point here, it wasn't 12, it was over 80. 12 deaths, 80+ people shot. Bullet wounds aren't necessarily fatal. The moral of the story being, when you have your rampage with an assault rifle, don't forget that the gas mask makes it a ***** to aim.

I believe the phrase you're looking for is "Post hoc, ergo propter hoc." or incorrectly assuming a correlation between events that aren't necessarily related.

Bit like trying to explain to children why stealing is wrong, innit?