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Zeitgeist: Addendum Actually pretty good. A lot better than the first becuase it wasn't as conspiracy theory-ish or bat s wacky. Enjoyed the first half because it was almost all about the monetary system and how it's basically designed to screw us and also to a much greater extent the rest of the world. The second half went into a completely different direction becuase it was mostly a guy from "The Venus Project" and how we should move to a resource based society and how all this stuff is wrong with our current system. While commendable and I do agree that society does need to change drastically some of their justifications are just plain wrong. One of their justifications was that the "communism = people not working becuase they don't really have to since there is no incentive" is a myth. I'm pretty sure if I got a free place to stay with all the food I wanted and utilities and what not I wouldn't do anything but chillax and watch tv. Hell, that's exactly what I did from age 0-19 under those circumstances. Then the ending. Movie was easy A material but then they just threw together some crappy ending sequence of just like their friends and their debut onto the acting stage combined with possibly the most horrendous special effects I have ever seen only comparable to something you'd see from the high school news club. But not taking those last 2 minutes into account I'd give the film about a 91.3 and a half out of 10. Go crazy super futuristic utopian paradise society. Bioshock, here we come, b*****. Edit: wow, I didn't know the b word didn't get auto filtered.

I'll never compromise my principles. Unless a fat chick openly pressures me for sex. I suppose I could for that one time. But I wouldn't like it.

Jeez I hope the 1/4 box you threw in the dumpster did not have any of my personal info in it... It's actually pretty scary the information that I have access to. There seriously isn't any safety of information what so ever in this day and age. Also the papers I threw away, half of them didn't even have anything on them and the others probably didn't have more than a name and contact info. Either way its not like anyone is just going to ever see them ever again unless someone decides they want to jump into that particular gas station dumpster and sort through 5 layers of hell.

Worked sucked pretty bad today. I got handed a box literally 35 pounds full of papers to shred. We are talking seriously maybe 2-3 thousand papers going into this little dinky pos office shredder that can max out at about 3 papers each go. That wouldn't be a problem since I had like 3 hours to do it however a third of the box was stapled packets which need to be undone and the thing over heated about 4 times, making it automatically shut down for like 20 minutes each, so about half of my time was just waiting for this thing to cool down and unstapling stuff and then another third of my time was changing the trash bag for the shredder and of course trying to knock loose all the paper that got holed up in the blades. Real fun stuff, just like shoving your hands onto a disk sander. In the end I shredded about half of the box but I knew that would look bad so I just grabbed like 1/4 of what was left and dumped it into my backpack and then threw it away in a dumpster. I was scared a cop would like pull me over and then like search my bag and think I was some kind of cyber theif or something stealing peoples personal records. Then this weird lady came around to my cubicle and started to talk to me and she called me "the shredder." It was a crappy day, though everyone except 2 people were in the office so I had like no accountability. Also I'm not sure how to deal with this. I walked into the bathroom and there was a guy in the stall. Completely unholy what was going on in there, though to give the guy credit he gave about 3 courtesy flushes. How come people gotta drop a duece at work, completely unprofessional, it just aint natural I tell ya, just aint natural. what is wrong with people, why me, why do I have to endure such hardships. Don't work in an office calax. You'll regret it. Every day my soul dies.

So I was making my lunch for work tomorrow (I'm like a little school boy again, but I only have a half an hour so it would be like impossible to eat out or probably even take out, plus I'm extra frugal) and I had just worked out as well so I'm jonesing for protein and food so I'm eating roast beef and my one cat, who is cute as a button and about 15 pounds over weight is just sitting up looking at me with his big bold innocent beautiful cat eyes just staring at me ravaging this bag of cold cuts, so I let him have two little pieces, and he just goes ape s. He got a taste and just developed the hunger. Running around, biting the floor, and just a general edgyness that a cat would get when on pcp. It was pretty awesome. Also I heard this joke in my business law class and thought of you walsingham. "Contracts will make you whole but torts will make you rich." ZING haha he he ha ha he ha ha he he pretty good amirite, enoch knows what im talking about

That was just down right unnecessary. Real sick joke you got there. Hope your proud of yourself.

I seen an over weight black woman zombie snatch the gizzard right out from a young man once.

That just gave me an idea, have you considered joining a Union? Regardless of which profession you chose (plumber, electrician, welder, etc...) you would enter the program as a "journeyman" or apprentice and they would provide for you all the training you will need to fulfill the job of your selection. I think it only takes 1-2 years before your a full blown (x) and making good money. I dont even think there are any prerequisites. This. I know of this kid, complete retard/lack of skills/character flaws, went to trade school for like 1 year and is an apprentice electrician and making 18 dollars an hour, guaranteed 24 after a year, then about 5-10 dollar an hour raises each year or so until about he hits 45-55 an hour which is when he should be a master. Unions are absolutely ridiculous. Though I do believe the trade business is pretty competitive and you might find it hard to actually get into the training. [insert long rant about how trade workers are horrible people] 9/10 they really are horrible and don't know what they are doing and most likely fell into the job becuase they were unemployable due to alcoholism, drug abuse, or just being academically retarded. Not saying you are any of those Calax, just what I've heard from Adam Carolla who was in the business many years and my grandpa whose done the stuff for like 60 years. Plus in my experience and statistics, trade workers generally do horrible jobs (highest complaint job in the U.S.) becuase they use mexicans who have no idea what they are doing and the actual people who are supposed to have the know how are lazy and don't know what they are doing. It's horrible. But good paying job path none the less, I wish I would have done it, that or dental hygienist.

no, nick, i already stated it quite clearly, his version of "telling" involves government force. c'mon man... well said, noob. a chilean phlan? is that like a custard, or more like a pudding? taks why you gotta hate on me too taks :'( ur nothing but a former brief best friend to me now i wont forget this

I'm sorry to hear about your cat lady. :'( Things couldn't possibly get worse this week. First the whole fiasco with team doubles being changed on Halo 3 and now my freakin xbox 360 got the red ring of death. And I have to leave for school in like 13 minutes. Then just minutes ago some crazy vote Obama chick (she actually said she worked for Obama like it was personal or something) with acne (though she was pretty cute and I'd definitely let her in my humble abode but my mom was home and they don't build basements out here....that sounded really america's most wanted I know) and she was all like who are you voting for and why don't you vote and I told her what she wanted to know so she would leave so I could freakin eat my freakin food. I'm angry. The only way this week could be worse is if somehow House got canceled or if work called for me to work tomorrow. I also got a B- on my econ exam by the skin of my teeth. Did I mention I'm angry?

I think the solution is the Chilean Plan. Loan all the money these banks need for their toxic loans and then have them pay it back, with interest (being done already).

I think it's more like "the greater degree to which your investments are concentrated in the financial sector, the worse hit." Diversify, diversify, diversify. Enoch! Give me financial advice best friend.

that sucks for that guy but good for me because i'm going to start investing soon. I've been waiting so long for this, I knew it was just a matter of time before the U.S. walked in the middle of the street and was nailed by a speeding garbage truck which sent the body flying into a street performer juggling flaming chainsaws which then cut the power line of a nearby telephone pole exploding into a shower of electrocution which then knocked the pole into an adjacent exotic pet store releasing a pack of viscious animals into the street. But I'll be here to pick up the pieces and hopefully make a decent profit over the next couple of years. Give me financial advice taks. plz best friend

The Dark Knight. This movie was way over hyped and ended up just being decent, though considering it was a comic book movie I'll upgrade it since they usually suck. My main gripe with the movie is that it was long as hell and could have used about a half an hour shaved off for it to be a bit more palatable. There were some nice and gritty parts to the movie but again people ruined them by hyping them up (aka the pencil trick) and this time around the story was actually pretty good, albiet kind of convoluted with the 50 plot twists and multiple villians vying for screen time. All in all I'd have to give it a respectable 8.5/10. Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? This was basically a documentary done by Morgan Spurlock, the guy famous for Super Size Me, in which he tries to "find" Osama Bin Laden by traveling to the Middle East. The title and premise is quite misleading since it was definitely a movie meant to give insight into Middle Eastern culture, people, and politics. There was also quite a bit of his personal story thrown in, with the birth of his child being focused on many times in the movie. Although the title lies I thought it was a very entertaining movie, but I would be lying if I didn't say that I wasn't a fan of Morgan and the stuff he does. I give Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden 8.73 I hate you you bastard becuase I want to shoot a rocket launcher and mounted machine guns and other assorted weapons in the mountains too out of 10.

Episode 3 was alright but when Peter started yelling at his dad about ethics and crap like that it got bad. Totally melodramatic and kind of bad acting; though the director didn't help at all with the atmosphere and pacing what so ever. Completely out of tune with the tone of the show.

I'm pretty sure someone already posted this, months ago.

Taks is an agent of a secret government agency designed to subtly brainwash people into capitalism's perverse ways and destroying the non believers (aka communists). But seriously Taks is right, I think. I didn't read the last thread so I'm only reading this. There is no such thing as pure capitalism except maybe back in the bartering days and perhaps small markets where the government didn't take a cut of the peoples profit but everything now a days is a mixed ecnomony, even the U.S. And capitalism wasn't the cause of this. It was just blatant greed. What do you think of the buy out deal taks? As much as I wish I could say no, I think we kind of need it however there needs to be a clause written in where the executives of all these mortage companies are strung up by piano wire after being hobbled and doused in battery acid.

Autocad is pretty awesome. I made such a sweet house in drafting but it would have been awesomer if we had computers that weren't 5 years old and a newer version of autocad that could ray trace higher quality stuff.

Started out on the nintendo to super nintendo to the n64 to ps2 and pc and finally xbox 360. Basically the earliest and most memorable games I remember were duck hunt, mario, street fighter and ridiculous amounts of golden eye. Up until then I was just a regular console playing youngin until I was about 9 or 10 and I was at my brother's friend's house. There I saw the single greatest thing I had ever seen since late night hbo; Warcraft 2. That really sealed the deal for me getting into gaming as a teen when we would actually be able to mildly afford this stuff. It kept me interested long enough to meet a friend of mine at around 14 or 15 who had an (what I thought) awesome computer and I was totally blown away by some like first person dueling star wars games, warcraft 3, battlefield 1942, and a bunch of other stuff. Now I got my 360 playing halo 3 and when cod 4 was new I was gaming on that with my PC. Now I don't really game that much at all and I'm kind of not interested in it anymore. I'm just waiting for that game to come along to give me the next shot of heroin and hook me up all over again. I'm hoping its either diablo 3 or sc2 or maybe something will surprise me.

This is a tough one. The bistro has Lobster bisque which is fantastically delicious if done right and the Filet Migon seems nice. However The Warehouse's Ribeye sounds better and cream of exotic mushroom sounds like win sauce incarnate. My vote goes for The Warehouse, it looks a lot snazzier too. Today I got my first pay check. 302.64 big ones. I think I'm going to cash in $50 of it to gamble on some sports. Supposedly my friend knows a guy whose a real pro. I'm hungry. And tired. And sore. And work sucked today. And I have a headache. And I have school tonight and there's a crazy old dude who is substituting and I think I'm the only person who finds him hilarious. I suppose that's what happens when you put 20 or so aspiring accountants in one room. Just a buzzkill vortex.

How is your management accounting class going? I wish my school would have offered it on campus becuase on line and alone with a book with only accounting 101 under your belt is psychological torture. So ridiculously frustrating.

Yep. American humor boils down to 10 years of Bob Saget showing a clip of a dude getting nailed in the nuts. That's as deep as it gets.

I don't enjoy British humor. Never have, never will.

I had an exam today. I'm confident I didn't fail it but I kind of doubt I got an A or perhaps even a B. It's a tough one, I know I got quite a few of the questions right but there were a handful of questions I had to guess on so it's kind of scary. In other news Halo 3 angered me greatly. I play one match setting and one match setting only and that's team doubles. I'm good at team doubles, you could even say I'm great at team doubles since I was only 2 levels away from level 50 which is the highest you can go and kind of hard to get since you have to win like 10 games in a row after you are 49, and to get to 49 you need to win like 8 games in a row, and so on and so forth down the line. Bungie ruined all that by requiring all map packs being downloaded to play doubles. And seeing as some maps aren't free I can't play since I don't use a credit card, nor would I, becuase I think dlc is bs and totally not cool in my opinion. I'm angry.

That's why I mentioned it. I heard stories of it in World Wars but really in Vietnam I think the dude said someone got nailed by a phos grenade and then he jumped into like a small creek but since it's phosphorous water doesn't help and actually I think makes it worse becuase it like oxidizes it more or something. I don't know I'm just speculating on that last part.