Saturday, November 15, 2014
The Data/Time Standard replacing the replaced Gold Standard
This is an interesting discussion that I want to surface. Michael Mennies posted an article about returning to the Gold Standard. I am not an economist, but some things seem kind of obvious to me. 1) If you want to see what the world values at a certain time, follow the wars. And no, I'm not entirely sure what a data/time war looks like, but I think we can interpret government intervention into the internet as an attempt to an aging nation/state model trying to remain relevant.
Different ages in human history value different things.
In the stone age, you valued the basics for survival. Food, flint (I had much more value then), furs, etc.
That advanced to gold. It was scarce, desirable, easy to evaluate (diamonds, less so) in a marketplace and easy to store. It was a concrete tangible proof of value in a disconnected world. You could be in Baghdad, Mexico City, London or San Francisco and gold was gold. It was an element. Irreducible. You only ran into problems when you went to places that didn't value the 'yellow metal that makes white men crazy.' Then you traded in furs or gun or whatever they valued.
Then, in the industrial age, value moved to energy. Industry needs oil. When oil was perceived as scarce (or energy was perceived as scarce) we based the global economy on oil (the article skipped the Petrodollar). The big key to what the world really values is to follow warfare. When gold was valued, we had navies, battles in exotic countries, etc. When oil was valued, we fought in the Middle East. There are still lots of problems in the middle east, but you can feel the epicenter moving.That's because oil is less valuable and scarce for a variety of reasons.
We are now in the information age. Value of anything is calculated in the microsecond. It constantly shifts, but the shift creates an odd stability. Labor is only valuable because it creates physical and intellectual things that are of perceived value. War is increasingly fought in cyberspace and the ascendent companies are companies that trade in cyberspace (Apple, Google, etc.). The primary value now is Data. It tells us what product to move to what place at what time. Oil still maintains value because we have to run machines and move things, but due to fracking and alternative energy, its declining (it will be a long decline).
So I would say now that the world economy is based on exploitation of data in time. That's a very abstract thing, but think about it. I'm not sure what it evolves to with cheap/free energy, near free labor (robots) and a rising population. Obviously, some things don't go away, like the stone age stuff of needing foot and heat and shelter, but the real value is in reacting to the demands.
Here's the link that started the conversation:
http://www.financialsense.com/…/the-gold-standard-generator…
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Strategies: Part 2
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Michael Kenney Scared Straight.
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Todd Downing Buddy System.
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Flint Dille Cut off and Kill. Daze and Confuse (Shock & Awe), FUD: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
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Flint Dille Man on Man. Zone.
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Flint Dille Sacrifice play. (Some come from sports).
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Todd Downing Thin the Herd.
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Neil Druckmann Sucker punch
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Flint Dille Amazing number of Ranching strategies. Its not a strategy, but Pyrrhic Victory is one of them. War of Attrition is one. Grind them down. One foot in front of the other. Do the 'next right thing' from Deep Survival (a book I highly recommend).
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Flint Dille Lover Sucker Punch. Rib shot. Swarm strategy.
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Neil Druckmann Hit below the belt
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Marshall Nystrom Triangulation
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Max Besterman Good Cop Bad Cop?
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Sharon LaBorde Robbing Peter to pay Paul, nipping it in the bud, fade back and punt...when my father-in-law wants to tell someone how it is, he'll tell them "where the bear went through the buckwheat". When he's extremely busy he's "hooked up like a sugar...
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Donald Appleby Preemptive Strike, Slash & Burn
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Flint Dille Scorched Earth.
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Christy Marx Ponzi Scheme. ;P
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Flint Dille Civil Disobedience. Passive Resistance.
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Robin W Enos The Big Lie.
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Mark Netter The Long Con.
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Flint Dille Catch them in a crossfire.
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Max Besterman Bullet through a flock of doves
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Steven Grant Measure twice, cut once.
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Steven Grant Double tap to the head.
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Steven Grant Always carry a spare clip.
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Janet Batchler The Trojan Horse. Cut and run. Fight fire with fire.
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Robin W Enos Circular firing squad.
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Robin W Enos The death of a thousand cuts.
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Janet Batchler The fall guy / the frame-up.
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Mark Netter Hail Mary (per Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, Gulf War I)
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Flint Dille Punt. Keep your powder dry.
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Rick Giolito Search and Destroy. Blitzkrieg.
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Flint Dille Friendly Fire. Covering Fire. Sleight of Hand.
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Rick Giolito Outflank, Pepper Pot, Ambush, Carpet Bomb
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Flint Dille What's pepper pot. This is great. I'm going to blog this when I have time.
18 hours ago · Like ·
Rick Giolito Portion of squad lays down suppressive fire while the other guys move forward...keep doing this till you reach where you want to go......called pepper potting.
17 hours ago · Like ·
Brad Sweet Also known as fire and maneuver in the modern army.
Others: People's War. Fifth Column. Creeping/Rolling Barrage. COIN. Hearts and Minds. Bliztkrieg. Area Denial. Blockade.
And in the nuclear realm; Counter-force vs. counter-value (lat...
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Michael Coy Cut Bait. An ounce of sugar helps the medicine go down. Get medieval on their ass.
15 hours ago · Like ·
Flint Dille What's counter force versus counter-value?
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Flint Dille Throw it up against the wall and see what sticks.
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Janet Batchler Release the Kraken.
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Flint Dille Baffle 'em with BS. Change the subject. Diversionary attack. Flood the Zone.
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Flint Dille Create a crisis the enemy can't manage.
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Flint Dille Blindside. Sandbag. Frontal Assault. Harass.
3 hours ago · Like ·
Brad Sweet Counter-force = target your nuclear missiles against the other guy's nuclear missiles.
Counter-value = target your nuclear missiles against the other guy's cities.
The first is most effective if you have accurate missiles and the willingness ...
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Flint Dille Great. Mutually Assured Destruction (dual homicide pact that amounts to a suicide pact) is a great, counter-intuitive strategy. Kept the world safe through the cold war
Michael Kenney Scared Straight.
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Craig Relyea Shock and awe.
Yesterday at 7:12am · Like ·
Todd Downing Buddy System.
Yesterday at 7:13am · Like ·
Flint Dille Cut off and Kill. Daze and Confuse (Shock & Awe), FUD: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
Yesterday at 7:31am · Like ·
Flint Dille Man on Man. Zone.
Yesterday at 7:31am · Like ·
Flint Dille Sacrifice play. (Some come from sports).
Yesterday at 7:32am · Like ·
Todd Downing Thin the Herd.
Yesterday at 7:45am · Like ·
Jeff Hartless Low Hanging Fruit
Yesterday at 7:47am · Like ·
Neil Druckmann Sucker punch
Yesterday at 8:00am · Like ·
Flint Dille Amazing number of Ranching strategies. Its not a strategy, but Pyrrhic Victory is one of them. War of Attrition is one. Grind them down. One foot in front of the other. Do the 'next right thing' from Deep Survival (a book I highly recommend).
Yesterday at 8:00am · Like ·
Flint Dille Lover Sucker Punch. Rib shot. Swarm strategy.
Yesterday at 8:00am · Like ·
Neil Druckmann Hit below the belt
Yesterday at 8:01am · Like ·
Marshall Nystrom Triangulation
Yesterday at 8:11am · Like ·
Max Besterman Good Cop Bad Cop?
Yesterday at 8:38am · Like ·
Sharon LaBorde Robbing Peter to pay Paul, nipping it in the bud, fade back and punt...when my father-in-law wants to tell someone how it is, he'll tell them "where the bear went through the buckwheat". When he's extremely busy he's "hooked up like a sugar...
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Mark Netter Mr. Charles
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Donald Appleby Preemptive Strike, Slash & Burn
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Flint Dille Scorched Earth.
Yesterday at 10:07am · Like ·
Flint Dille Razzle Dazzle
Yesterday at 10:08am · Like ·
Christy Marx Ponzi Scheme. ;P
Yesterday at 10:08am · Like ·
Flint Dille Civil Disobedience. Passive Resistance.
Yesterday at 10:10am · Like · 1 person ·
Robin W Enos The Big Lie.
Yesterday at 10:44am · Like ·
Mark Netter The Long Con.
Yesterday at 10:52am · Like ·
Flint Dille Catch them in a crossfire.
Yesterday at 11:11am · Like ·
Max Besterman Bullet through a flock of doves
22 hours ago · Like ·
Steven Grant Measure twice, cut once.
21 hours ago · Like ·
Steven Grant Double tap to the head.
21 hours ago · Like ·
Steven Grant Always carry a spare clip.
21 hours ago · Like ·
Janet Batchler The Trojan Horse. Cut and run. Fight fire with fire.
21 hours ago · Like ·
Robin W Enos Circular firing squad.
21 hours ago · Like ·
Robin W Enos The death of a thousand cuts.
21 hours ago · Like ·
Janet Batchler The fall guy / the frame-up.
21 hours ago · Like ·
Mark Netter Hail Mary (per Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, Gulf War I)
20 hours ago · Like ·
Flint Dille Punt. Keep your powder dry.
19 hours ago · Like ·
Rick Giolito Search and Destroy. Blitzkrieg.
18 hours ago · Like ·
Flint Dille Friendly Fire. Covering Fire. Sleight of Hand.
18 hours ago · Like ·
Rick Giolito Outflank, Pepper Pot, Ambush, Carpet Bomb
18 hours ago · Like ·
Flint Dille What's pepper pot. This is great. I'm going to blog this when I have time.
18 hours ago · Like ·
Rick Giolito Portion of squad lays down suppressive fire while the other guys move forward...keep doing this till you reach where you want to go......called pepper potting.
17 hours ago · Like ·
Brad Sweet Also known as fire and maneuver in the modern army.
Others: People's War. Fifth Column. Creeping/Rolling Barrage. COIN. Hearts and Minds. Bliztkrieg. Area Denial. Blockade.
And in the nuclear realm; Counter-force vs. counter-value (lat...
See More
16 hours ago · Like ·
Michael Coy Cut Bait. An ounce of sugar helps the medicine go down. Get medieval on their ass.
15 hours ago · Like ·
Flint Dille What's counter force versus counter-value?
8 hours ago · Like ·
Flint Dille Throw it up against the wall and see what sticks.
8 hours ago · Like ·
Janet Batchler Release the Kraken.
3 hours ago · Like ·
Flint Dille Baffle 'em with BS. Change the subject. Diversionary attack. Flood the Zone.
3 hours ago · Like ·
Flint Dille Create a crisis the enemy can't manage.
3 hours ago · Like ·
Flint Dille Blindside. Sandbag. Frontal Assault. Harass.
3 hours ago · Like ·
Brad Sweet Counter-force = target your nuclear missiles against the other guy's nuclear missiles.
Counter-value = target your nuclear missiles against the other guy's cities.
The first is most effective if you have accurate missiles and the willingness ...
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9 minutes ago · Like ·
Flint Dille Great. Mutually Assured Destruction (dual homicide pact that amounts to a suicide pact) is a great, counter-intuitive strategy. Kept the world safe through the cold war
Strategy Facebook Thread
hawn Mallory Scorched earth.
Yesterday at 12:19am · Like ·
Steven Grant Bull in a china shop.
Yesterday at 12:55am · Like ·
Steven Grant Oh, and reverse psychology.
Yesterday at 12:56am · Like ·
Steven Grant What's Fabian Strategy? Joining with a bunch of stuffed shirts and trying to con the world into believing you know what you're talking about and they don't? Or is it something to do with puffing up your hair and pretending you can sing while smiling a lot with whitened teeth?
Yesterday at 12:58am · Like ·
Flint Dille Its named after Qunitus Fabius, a roman general who thwarted Hannibal by avoiding direct battle with him and instead harassing and atritting him. You waste his time. Fabius was known as Fabius the Delayer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabi...
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Flint Dille I'm going with Reverse Psychology.
Yesterday at 2:09am · Like ·
Rachel Hanig hose or no hose with this dress?
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Andrew Steven Harris Don't forget rope-a-dope.
Yesterday at 2:28am · Like ·
Andrew Steven Harris Oh yeah. And playing possum.
Yesterday at 2:29am · Like ·
Flint Dille Great!!! That's exactly what I'm looking for. Strategies everybody knows.
Yesterday at 2:29am · Like ·
William J. Teegarden Bait and switch...
Yesterday at 2:38am · Like ·
Flint Dille Yes!!!
Yesterday at 2:56am · Like ·
Flint Dille Playing Possum. Search and Destroy? Chaoticize.
Yesterday at 2:57am · Like ·
William J. Teegarden Feint and jab
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Flint Dille What's that?
Yesterday at 3:02am · Like ·
Flint Dille Indirect attack.
Yesterday at 3:03am · Like ·
William J. Teegarden boxing strategy move
Yesterday at 3:03am · Like ·
Flint Dille Keep it up. I'm going back to bed.
Yesterday at 3:03am · Like ·
William J. Teegarden OMG! For the over-40 crowd: Duck and Cover!
Yesterday at 3:04am · Like ·
Flint Dille Yes. CYA is a strategy.
Yesterday at 3:09am · Like ·
Steve DeFrisco Siege
Yesterday at 6:33am · Like ·
Janet Batchler Passive aggression.
Yesterday at 7:47am · Like ·
Daniel Summer Phalanx!
Yesterday at 8:26am · Like ·
Steve DeFrisco Undermine Authority
Yesterday at 8:37am · Like ·
Robert Daugherty L-shaped ambush, reverse slope defense, defense in depth, flanking maneuver, pincer maneuver, distraction, turtling (not the WoW kind), decapitation, denial, guerrilla warfare, insurgency, appeasement, raiding, total war
23 hours ago · Like ·
Flint Dille What is Defense in Depth and Reverse Slope Defense? (I'm guessing you be over the hill when the guy comes over and get him before he orients).
22 hours ago · Like ·
Lenny Raymond Don't attack walled cities. Wait by the side of the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by.
21 hours ago · Like ·
Steven Grant Strategies: don't forget The Big Lie.
21 hours ago · Like ·
Steven Grant Undermine authority? That's not a strategy, that's a lifestyle.
21 hours ago · Like ·
Flint Dille Question Authority. Eschew Obfuscation. Bumper stickers are kind of strategies. Visualize Peace is definitely a 'future picture exercise.'
21 hours ago · Like ·
Robert Daugherty Flint, you nailed reverse slope defense. By the time they crest the hill and run into your mines and obstacles it is too late, and as a bonus the guys coming up from behind can't see the carnage.
21 hours ago · Like ·
Flint Dille Fixed fortifications are over
19 hours ago · Like ·
Flint Dille Oh man, Robert, that's nasty. What else is there?
15 hours ago · Like ·
Flint Dille Seize the high ground
Yesterday at 12:19am · Like ·
Steven Grant Bull in a china shop.
Yesterday at 12:55am · Like ·
Steven Grant Oh, and reverse psychology.
Yesterday at 12:56am · Like ·
Steven Grant What's Fabian Strategy? Joining with a bunch of stuffed shirts and trying to con the world into believing you know what you're talking about and they don't? Or is it something to do with puffing up your hair and pretending you can sing while smiling a lot with whitened teeth?
Yesterday at 12:58am · Like ·
Flint Dille Its named after Qunitus Fabius, a roman general who thwarted Hannibal by avoiding direct battle with him and instead harassing and atritting him. You waste his time. Fabius was known as Fabius the Delayer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabi...
See More
Yesterday at 2:09am · Like ·
Flint Dille I'm going with Reverse Psychology.
Yesterday at 2:09am · Like ·
Rachel Hanig hose or no hose with this dress?
Yesterday at 2:18am · Like ·
Andrew Steven Harris Don't forget rope-a-dope.
Yesterday at 2:28am · Like ·
Andrew Steven Harris Oh yeah. And playing possum.
Yesterday at 2:29am · Like ·
Flint Dille Great!!! That's exactly what I'm looking for. Strategies everybody knows.
Yesterday at 2:29am · Like ·
William J. Teegarden Bait and switch...
Yesterday at 2:38am · Like ·
Flint Dille Yes!!!
Yesterday at 2:56am · Like ·
Flint Dille Playing Possum. Search and Destroy? Chaoticize.
Yesterday at 2:57am · Like ·
William J. Teegarden Feint and jab
Yesterday at 3:00am · Like ·
Flint Dille What's that?
Yesterday at 3:02am · Like ·
Flint Dille Indirect attack.
Yesterday at 3:03am · Like ·
William J. Teegarden boxing strategy move
Yesterday at 3:03am · Like ·
Flint Dille Keep it up. I'm going back to bed.
Yesterday at 3:03am · Like ·
William J. Teegarden OMG! For the over-40 crowd: Duck and Cover!
Yesterday at 3:04am · Like ·
Flint Dille Yes. CYA is a strategy.
Yesterday at 3:09am · Like ·
Steve DeFrisco Siege
Yesterday at 6:33am · Like ·
Janet Batchler Passive aggression.
Yesterday at 7:47am · Like ·
Daniel Summer Phalanx!
Yesterday at 8:26am · Like ·
Steve DeFrisco Undermine Authority
Yesterday at 8:37am · Like ·
Robert Daugherty L-shaped ambush, reverse slope defense, defense in depth, flanking maneuver, pincer maneuver, distraction, turtling (not the WoW kind), decapitation, denial, guerrilla warfare, insurgency, appeasement, raiding, total war
23 hours ago · Like ·
Flint Dille What is Defense in Depth and Reverse Slope Defense? (I'm guessing you be over the hill when the guy comes over and get him before he orients).
22 hours ago · Like ·
Lenny Raymond Don't attack walled cities. Wait by the side of the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by.
21 hours ago · Like ·
Steven Grant Strategies: don't forget The Big Lie.
21 hours ago · Like ·
Steven Grant Undermine authority? That's not a strategy, that's a lifestyle.
21 hours ago · Like ·
Flint Dille Question Authority. Eschew Obfuscation. Bumper stickers are kind of strategies. Visualize Peace is definitely a 'future picture exercise.'
21 hours ago · Like ·
Robert Daugherty Flint, you nailed reverse slope defense. By the time they crest the hill and run into your mines and obstacles it is too late, and as a bonus the guys coming up from behind can't see the carnage.
21 hours ago · Like ·
Flint Dille Fixed fortifications are over
19 hours ago · Like ·
Flint Dille Oh man, Robert, that's nasty. What else is there?
15 hours ago · Like ·
Flint Dille Seize the high ground
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Inhumanoids Thread
Flint Dille The Inhumanoids' Earth Corps as environmental clean up squad. Interesting idea from a fan. See below.
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Theodore D. Hsu I'd also saw a spot on TV this morning about Kevin Costner having helped developed a technology to deal with oil spills on water and how to clean them up. So anytime there is cataclysmic disaster on an environmental scale, I figured Auger, Liquidator or Dr. Bright would be falling over each other to deliver what they felt could help (and get contracts to take care of the crisis as well).
Monday at 6:16pm · Like ·
Flint Dille Kevin Costner would be a perfect Earth Corps guy. Anybody know him?
Monday at 6:44pm · Like ·
John Devanney Wheres Captain Planet when ya need him ;)
Monday at 6:51pm · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu Would Kevin make a good Herc Armstrong Sr., ready to pass the role and exo-suit of "Herc" to his son? The first one fought the main Inhumanoids and then the cleanup duties came along (with proper reimbursement of course; getting equipment, fuel and chemicals for spills, rescue efforts or decontamination on the double doesn't come without good ...
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Flint Dille Two things: no preaching and Costner's not that old. In fact, we should do everything we can to get Boomers to go to the movies.
Monday at 7:13pm · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu Would a modern re-imagine of Dr. Derek Bright be a kid prodigy who'd built robots for science fairs, rebuilt junkers to be able to afford his work, possibly paid his way through college with a slew of tech innovations and came out with enough degrees and a body of work that made his professors jealous?
Monday at 7:25pm · Like ·
G.D. Strauff Actually Flint - this was a story point I wanted to bring up with you. I was watching an old (and very underrated) sci-fi flick called Crack in the World.
It seems to me that whenever there's an Irwin Allen-esque disaster looming on the horizon, Earth Corps. would be one of the first ones called in. So much potential for stories not involving the ancient horrors (but then, who's to say a major tremor won't crack D'Compose's amber prison?) but are still thrilling.
Monday at 7:26pm · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu Jonathan "Liquidator" Slattery would also be a whiz kid in the labs as well, whose work attracted a lot of scholarships, and in return his research led to chemicals that brought his university a lot of cash. One cousin in the health field did ask about creating a compound to help meth addicts begin the long road to recovery "Think how many lives you could touch and save with something like that. How many families you could bring back together."
Monday at 7:27pm · Like ·
Flint Dille Either they're called in, or they are vaguely disreputable and under-appreciated and have crossed a bunch of powerful guys. They always ought to be sneaking into their situations.
Monday at 7:29pm · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu Auger was the son of a miner and a gear-head as well. He'd taken up martial arts to protect himself, and was a Marine to pay for college. A mechanic at heart, he sometimes made for improvements to improve performance on vehicles. When it was allowed of course:)
Monday at 7:29pm · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu And Herman "Herc" Armstrong saw these three had potential to do a lot for him. So he got them together for a weekend and asked "How would you like to help save a dying world?"
Monday at 7:30pm · Like ·
G.D. Strauff Herc knows that Blackthorne went against their caution and drilled on a volcanic vent, and now he knows he can seal-off the pipe spewing sulphur dioxide; Bright & Auger know they have the tech to seal it off.
But - being it's a Shore, Blackthorne has enough clout over Senator Masterson to keep EC off the clean-up.
Monday at 7:40pm · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu Or they could have felt they weren't "given their due" after the powerful bad guys cut them out. So they decide something big and bad is going on, and they decide to put their heads together for it.
Monday at 7:40pm · Like ·
G.D. Strauff A perfect subplot! Shore Industries announces a clean, renewable power source - GeoThermic energy harvested from the Mantle!
Pepper it throughout - activists opposing it on TV; senate hearings. Newspaper articles.
Every now and then show the plant being constructed (Northern California? Yellowstone?) ...
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Monday at 7:49pm · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu And in G.D.'s scene, when disaster from when Masterson keeps EC off the cleanup occurs, and the major bumbling we know the Senator does hits the fan, Auger has to be muzzled by the others from going, "We all tried to warn you about this BUT NOOOOOOOOOO! You HAD to be Blackthorne's personal lap dog!" in the voice of John Belushi.
Monday at 7:50pm · Like ·
G.D. Strauff ::: shoe through the TV screen :::
Monday at 7:50pm · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu If the screen was a flat screen, one of the others would snag it with a baseball mitt have a screen mesh a few inches in front of it. "Do you know how much a flat screen COSTS? We can't afford you chucking your size-12s at it every time someone ticks you off!"
"Well, I would have been ready to cut a check for a cheaper TV."
Come to think of it, they always had small TVs that were easily replaceable even in the 80s:P
Monday at 7:55pm · Like ·
Flint Dille Yeah. You've got to have a lot of TV screens.
Monday at 10:26pm · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu Or Derek 2010 might have put together a whole bank of fixed-up old TVs tuned to many channels with the "universal remote". With maybe a thin mesh screen that allowed for watching the TV but catching the heavy shoes Auger always wore.
Monday at 11:56pm · Like ·
Flint Dille I remember there's one episode where they had a net in front of the TV.
Tuesday at 5:01am · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu That was because they had finally had enough of Auger's taking bad news out on the television that broadcast it. In the same episode (Auger...for President?) they'd even had a spare to watch the results on, Liquidator kidding "We've learned to deal with it (or something like that)"
Tuesday at 10:12am · Like ·
Flint Dille As I recall, he beat Masterson, much to the chagrin of Hektor Ramirez.
Tuesday at 10:29am · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu Which was the cue for the Inhumanoids to strike, taking Auger to be the main course at their dinner--President Flambe:P It was with the help of Tank and Sabre Jet the other Earth Corps won the final battle, if I recall correctly.
Tuesday at 11:17am · Like ·
Flint Dille That's right. The DVD's of the series are of a bad mix and virtually unwatchable. I ought to rip the cassettes to DVD without of course, violating any laws. What is the law on that?
Tuesday at 11:22am · Like ·
Sanford S. Williams I'm still trying to get the DVD collection. Is there any chance of a revamp of this series?
Tuesday at 1:49pm · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu I think if you talk to the Shout! Factory maybe we can get them to get the whole series on North American DVD. Hopefully we can get them to put it out there, as well as Visionaries.
Tuesday at 2:09pm · Like ·
Flint Dille Yeah. That would be cool. I'd love to do the voice track. Seems like somebody from Shout Factory is a friend here.
Tuesday at 2:19pm · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu If you ever need someone to try to do Chris Latta, once I did for a friend a "live performance" of a few scenes from "GI Joe vs. The Transformers" volume 1 (I did a few Cobra Commander-Megatron scenes as well as a Starscream scene or two, including Starscream with the Commander when the chips were down--and Snake Eyes avenging his family by slashing one of Starscream's optics open, then sticking a grenade in the "eye socket").
Tuesday at 2:36pm · Like ·
Mark Lungo Flint, "Inhumanoids" was when I really began to appreciate your talent. You were given the concept of a kids' adventure cartoon set in hell (more or less), and you made it even more twisted (and funnier!) with scripts like "Primal Passions". That takes some doing.
Also: "Inhumanoids" introduced a whole bunch of toyetic new characters in later ...
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Tuesday at 3:47pm · Like ·
Flint Dille I saw prototypes of Nightcrawler... S-s-slither and Gargoyle (I like Gagoyle better as a name.
Tuesday at 3:50pm · Like ·
Mark Lungo Good to know. Still, I always liked the Earth Corps better than the monsters. What kind of weirdo does that make me?
Tuesday at 4:04pm · Like ·
Flint Dille Its interesting, one of the things we tried to do with Inhumanoids was make the heroes as interesting as the villains. That's surprisingly hard to do.
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Cliff Bleszinski The evil that lies wiiiiithiiiiiin!
Monday at 5:57pm · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu I'd also saw a spot on TV this morning about Kevin Costner having helped developed a technology to deal with oil spills on water and how to clean them up. So anytime there is cataclysmic disaster on an environmental scale, I figured Auger, Liquidator or Dr. Bright would be falling over each other to deliver what they felt could help (and get contracts to take care of the crisis as well).
Monday at 6:16pm · Like ·
Flint Dille Kevin Costner would be a perfect Earth Corps guy. Anybody know him?
Monday at 6:44pm · Like ·
John Devanney Wheres Captain Planet when ya need him ;)
Monday at 6:51pm · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu Would Kevin make a good Herc Armstrong Sr., ready to pass the role and exo-suit of "Herc" to his son? The first one fought the main Inhumanoids and then the cleanup duties came along (with proper reimbursement of course; getting equipment, fuel and chemicals for spills, rescue efforts or decontamination on the double doesn't come without good ...
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Monday at 7:00pm · Like ·
Flint Dille Two things: no preaching and Costner's not that old. In fact, we should do everything we can to get Boomers to go to the movies.
Monday at 7:13pm · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu Would a modern re-imagine of Dr. Derek Bright be a kid prodigy who'd built robots for science fairs, rebuilt junkers to be able to afford his work, possibly paid his way through college with a slew of tech innovations and came out with enough degrees and a body of work that made his professors jealous?
Monday at 7:25pm · Like ·
G.D. Strauff Actually Flint - this was a story point I wanted to bring up with you. I was watching an old (and very underrated) sci-fi flick called Crack in the World.
It seems to me that whenever there's an Irwin Allen-esque disaster looming on the horizon, Earth Corps. would be one of the first ones called in. So much potential for stories not involving the ancient horrors (but then, who's to say a major tremor won't crack D'Compose's amber prison?) but are still thrilling.
Monday at 7:26pm · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu Jonathan "Liquidator" Slattery would also be a whiz kid in the labs as well, whose work attracted a lot of scholarships, and in return his research led to chemicals that brought his university a lot of cash. One cousin in the health field did ask about creating a compound to help meth addicts begin the long road to recovery "Think how many lives you could touch and save with something like that. How many families you could bring back together."
Monday at 7:27pm · Like ·
Flint Dille Either they're called in, or they are vaguely disreputable and under-appreciated and have crossed a bunch of powerful guys. They always ought to be sneaking into their situations.
Monday at 7:29pm · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu Auger was the son of a miner and a gear-head as well. He'd taken up martial arts to protect himself, and was a Marine to pay for college. A mechanic at heart, he sometimes made for improvements to improve performance on vehicles. When it was allowed of course:)
Monday at 7:29pm · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu And Herman "Herc" Armstrong saw these three had potential to do a lot for him. So he got them together for a weekend and asked "How would you like to help save a dying world?"
Monday at 7:30pm · Like ·
G.D. Strauff Herc knows that Blackthorne went against their caution and drilled on a volcanic vent, and now he knows he can seal-off the pipe spewing sulphur dioxide; Bright & Auger know they have the tech to seal it off.
But - being it's a Shore, Blackthorne has enough clout over Senator Masterson to keep EC off the clean-up.
Monday at 7:40pm · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu Or they could have felt they weren't "given their due" after the powerful bad guys cut them out. So they decide something big and bad is going on, and they decide to put their heads together for it.
Monday at 7:40pm · Like ·
G.D. Strauff A perfect subplot! Shore Industries announces a clean, renewable power source - GeoThermic energy harvested from the Mantle!
Pepper it throughout - activists opposing it on TV; senate hearings. Newspaper articles.
Every now and then show the plant being constructed (Northern California? Yellowstone?) ...
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Monday at 7:49pm · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu And in G.D.'s scene, when disaster from when Masterson keeps EC off the cleanup occurs, and the major bumbling we know the Senator does hits the fan, Auger has to be muzzled by the others from going, "We all tried to warn you about this BUT NOOOOOOOOOO! You HAD to be Blackthorne's personal lap dog!" in the voice of John Belushi.
Monday at 7:50pm · Like ·
G.D. Strauff ::: shoe through the TV screen :::
Monday at 7:50pm · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu If the screen was a flat screen, one of the others would snag it with a baseball mitt have a screen mesh a few inches in front of it. "Do you know how much a flat screen COSTS? We can't afford you chucking your size-12s at it every time someone ticks you off!"
"Well, I would have been ready to cut a check for a cheaper TV."
Come to think of it, they always had small TVs that were easily replaceable even in the 80s:P
Monday at 7:55pm · Like ·
Flint Dille Yeah. You've got to have a lot of TV screens.
Monday at 10:26pm · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu Or Derek 2010 might have put together a whole bank of fixed-up old TVs tuned to many channels with the "universal remote". With maybe a thin mesh screen that allowed for watching the TV but catching the heavy shoes Auger always wore.
Monday at 11:56pm · Like ·
Flint Dille I remember there's one episode where they had a net in front of the TV.
Tuesday at 5:01am · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu That was because they had finally had enough of Auger's taking bad news out on the television that broadcast it. In the same episode (Auger...for President?) they'd even had a spare to watch the results on, Liquidator kidding "We've learned to deal with it (or something like that)"
Tuesday at 10:12am · Like ·
Flint Dille As I recall, he beat Masterson, much to the chagrin of Hektor Ramirez.
Tuesday at 10:29am · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu Which was the cue for the Inhumanoids to strike, taking Auger to be the main course at their dinner--President Flambe:P It was with the help of Tank and Sabre Jet the other Earth Corps won the final battle, if I recall correctly.
Tuesday at 11:17am · Like ·
Flint Dille That's right. The DVD's of the series are of a bad mix and virtually unwatchable. I ought to rip the cassettes to DVD without of course, violating any laws. What is the law on that?
Tuesday at 11:22am · Like ·
Sanford S. Williams I'm still trying to get the DVD collection. Is there any chance of a revamp of this series?
Tuesday at 1:49pm · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu I think if you talk to the Shout! Factory maybe we can get them to get the whole series on North American DVD. Hopefully we can get them to put it out there, as well as Visionaries.
Tuesday at 2:09pm · Like ·
Flint Dille Yeah. That would be cool. I'd love to do the voice track. Seems like somebody from Shout Factory is a friend here.
Tuesday at 2:19pm · Like ·
Theodore D. Hsu If you ever need someone to try to do Chris Latta, once I did for a friend a "live performance" of a few scenes from "GI Joe vs. The Transformers" volume 1 (I did a few Cobra Commander-Megatron scenes as well as a Starscream scene or two, including Starscream with the Commander when the chips were down--and Snake Eyes avenging his family by slashing one of Starscream's optics open, then sticking a grenade in the "eye socket").
Tuesday at 2:36pm · Like ·
Mark Lungo Flint, "Inhumanoids" was when I really began to appreciate your talent. You were given the concept of a kids' adventure cartoon set in hell (more or less), and you made it even more twisted (and funnier!) with scripts like "Primal Passions". That takes some doing.
Also: "Inhumanoids" introduced a whole bunch of toyetic new characters in later ...
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Tuesday at 3:47pm · Like ·
Flint Dille I saw prototypes of Nightcrawler... S-s-slither and Gargoyle (I like Gagoyle better as a name.
Tuesday at 3:50pm · Like ·
Mark Lungo Good to know. Still, I always liked the Earth Corps better than the monsters. What kind of weirdo does that make me?
Tuesday at 4:04pm · Like ·
Flint Dille Its interesting, one of the things we tried to do with Inhumanoids was make the heroes as interesting as the villains. That's surprisingly hard to do.
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Election Day Religious Frag Fest
Flint Dille I guess I just don't buy the idea that corporations are innately evil. They make products I purchase.
Yesterday at 9:57am ·
Scott P. Schomer Ha! Even lefties, I love it.
Yesterday at 10:05am ·
Janet Batchler No, corporations are not innately evil. (Heck, I'm a corporation!) But do you want to vote to make one particular corporation a monopoly and block all paths to any competition against it, and moreover to enshrine that in the state constitution? That's what Prop 16 does, and all their "right to vote" propaganda is pure bullshit.
Yesterday at 10:05am ·
Buzz Dixon @Janet -- >you< are not a corporation, you own a corporation
@Flint -- corporations are not evil but rather amoral. They are interested only in profit and take careful steps to isolate their owners & employees from the consequences of their actions. They justify all their actions by how much money they return to their owners. It's the love of ...
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Yesterday at 10:27am ·
Craig Miller No one is saying corporations are evil. But these two propositions are. The promotion of them is misleading. False, even. And they are specifically to the detriment of the public. If PG&E wants to compete, be competitive; don't try to outlaw the existence of competition. Mercury is claiming 17 reduces rates when it actually does the opposite. Corporations aren't evil. Lying for profit is.
Yesterday at 10:28am ·
Flint Dille I think there are lots of other roots of evil than money. C'mon. Pride, Envy, Anger, Sloth, AVARICE, Gluttony and Lust. Avarice doens't even make the top half of the list.
Yesterday at 10:29am ·
Craig Miller So one evil is okay because there are others? "Don't punish him. He only murdered one guy. That guy over there killed six."
Yesterday at 10:30am ·
Flint Dille Is that the 'Reductio Ad Absurdum" that was so heavily discussed the other day. Obviously, I was responding to the rather threadbare old chestnut 'money is the root of all evil.'
New Rhet idea. Just because something is a cliche, doesn't make it true.
Yesterday at 10:32am ·
Janet Batchler It is an old chestnut. Almost 2000 years old. "The love of money is the root of all evil." -- I Tim 6:10
Yesterday at 10:37am ·
Flint Dille My NIV says: For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
The 'kinds of' makes it a statement I can believe in. The same way, "I kind of forgot myself' makes me believe Dirty Harry, because I really don't forget that Harry Callighan forgets how many bullets he fires.
Yesterday at 10:39am ·
Craig Miller No, Flint. Your comment was the Reducto ad Absurdum. What difference does it make if Buzz quoted the Bible? He was making a point. You ignored his point to chide his use of a cliche. His point still holds. And just because a corporation loves money, doesn't mean the public should bend over for them.
Yesterday at 10:40am ·
Buzz Dixon @Flint -- Money buys you access to the other 7 deadly sins. And you're a deacon, you should know better: St. Paul didn't write "Money is the root of all evil" but "The >love< of money is the root of all evil."
And don't get me started on the original meanings of stereotype and cliche' (printing terms). Cliches can't become cliches unless there is some truth to them, the problem is when people use cliches instead of thinking.
Yesterday at 10:41am ·
Flint Dille See above. Buzz misquoted the bible -- or at least a sensible interpretation of the bible, because, even on first blush, there's plenty of evil in it that has nothing to do with money - starting with Eve and the apple which, given there was no economy at the time, probably wasn't a monetary issue.
Also, nice reductio ad absurdum at the end. I never said we should bend over for them.
Yesterday at 10:42am ·
Buzz Dixon @Flint -- #1 I did not misquote the Bible. You're talking to a 7-yr veteran of So. Bapt. Vacation Bible Schools -- careful who you're slappin' Bible leather with, podnuh!
#2 The real root of evil is the love of self over the love of God and others (which is why Christ quoted Rabbi Hillel and said the 2 greatest commandments were to love God and...
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Yesterday at 10:47am ·
Flint Dille Slap with Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_of_all_evil
Yesterday at 10:53am ·
Michael Kenney I just wish I had enough money to send my daughter to college this fall, pay my bills each month and pay off these annoying credit card bills.
Yesterday at 10:54am ·
Buzz Dixon @Flint -- I thot quoting Wikipedia as an authoritative source was one of the signs one had lost an argument. ;)
Yesterday at 11:00am ·
Buzz Dixon @Flint -- Seriously, Christ was pretty down on human beings accumulativing wealth. Easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man enter heaven, sell all you have and give it to the poor, the lilies of the fields, what profits a man to gain the world only to lose his soul, you cannot serve both God and Mamon [money], etc., etc., and of course, etc.
Yesterday at 11:03am ·
Flint Dille Buzz: Give it up. Its okay. Obviously, nobody in the bible thinks money is the root of all evil. Its just a misquote. Every translation throws in some version of 'all kinds' of evil. Cutting out the 'all kinds' dramatically changes the meaning. Everybody can agree with it. Let's move on.
New International Version (©1984)
For the love of ...
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Yesterday at 11:14am ·
Michael Chase Walker You cannot misquote or even quote a mythological personage. There is zero empirical evidence that "Christ" existed and zero historical evidence that the legendary "Jesus" of Nazareth" existed. Thus, Hitchens' maxim applies, "that which can be introduced without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Yesterday at 11:16am ·
Buzz Dixon @MCW -- The historical reality of the existence of Jesus is undisputed. The Epistles were written within a few years to a few decades after the crucifixion; since they repeatedly refer to Christ's death and resurrection and were for people who lived in the part of the world where those events occured, it would have been pretty easy to prove Jesus ...
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Yesterday at 11:27am ·
Michael Kenney Is this a good time to quote Douglas Adams?
Yesterday at 11:29am ·
Buzz Dixon @Flint -- What were you saying the other day about deliberately misquoting an opponent in a debate? Check my posts, I keep quoting the verse accurately. The New Testament, Christ in particular, sees wealth as an obstruction to a virtuous life and salvation.
Yesterday at 11:29am ·
Flint Dille Buzz... What did I misquote? Here's your quote:
"It's the love of money that is the root of all evil & once a corporation loses its founders, either thru purchase or death/retirement, then it tends to lose sight of any vision other than the acquisition of wealth"
I'm confused.
Yesterday at 12:21pm ·
Flint Dille Michael, I do have to go with Buzz on this. If judged by the standards of all other ancient scholarship, the existence of Jesus Christ is as well documented as virtually anything in antiquity. And far better documented than almost any history based on anything but the extreme upper and military classes. Heard a fascinating lecture by a my ...
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Yesterday at 12:25pm ·
G.D. Strauff I love all you guys so I'mma just watch, m k'ay?
Yesterday at 12:41pm ·
Sharon LaBorde Personally, I follow a fortune cookie fortune I got once:
"Money is the root of evil and man needs roots."
Yesterday at 12:44pm ·
Michael Chase Walker You're both referring to "pseudo-history" and what anthropologists term appropriately "pseudo-historic metamorphosis" the piling on of past mythological figures to impose and foster validity and timelessness to a more favorable and trendy up-to-date figure. The Christ/Jesus god/ man incarnate motif is as old as mankind and predates Christianity by...
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Yesterday at 1:07pm ·
Flint Dille No, this was a real ancient history professor at a real university going over the historical evidence of Christ based on the same rules he would use for, say Alexander the Great. No pseudo. He did not get into any mystical or theological issues. It was all real history all the time.
Yesterday at 1:26pm ·
Flint Dille Beyond that, we're in the area of BELIEF, the most inarguable and irreconcilable of the four types of arguments. Extremely argumentative, impossible to argue. Nobody can prove to you that God exists and you are in the even more impossible position of proving a negative.
Yesterday at 1:27pm ·
Michael Chase Walker No, you have it all backwards, my friend, you do not have to prove a negative, ergo "that which can be introduced without evidence i.e. god, can be dismissed accordingly. There's nothing more to say. The onus is on you to provide the evidence when you are positing the impossible.
Yesterday at 2:11pm ·
Flint Dille You have to prove something doesn't exist. I say it does. That's proving a negative. As long as your audience is Mr. Hitchens, you don't have to prove anything. He already agrees.
If your audience is anyone else, proof is what you and they agree is proof.
Now, we have a definitional debate. The 2nd most argumentative, yet inarguable kind of...
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Yesterday at 2:15pm ·
Flint Dille Or put another way, I can't prove it to you and I don't need to prove it to myself.
Yesterday at 2:16pm ·
Michael Chase Walker This is no longer a debate but mere semantics and something more akin to the childish, I know you are but what am I? As for your "history" professor you both might enjoy the antics of the crank physicist Dr. Parker, Ph.D who has opened his own "scientific" museum" dedicated to creationism... where dinosaurs roam the Garden of Eden with their fellow man.... As for Alexander's actual existence, I'll put my money on him above Jesus anytime.
Yesterday at 2:27pm ·
Buzz Dixon @MCW -- I understand your extreme reluctance to accept anything in the Bible as historically/archeologically verifiable (such as the existence of Jesus); it's much more comforting to be able to dismiss the entire thing than face the consequences of it being true.
Kinda like a 3 yr old hoping the bad doggie will go away if he closes his eyes...
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Yesterday at 2:52pm ·
Michael Chase Walker Thank you for the invitation, Buzz, but I take your likening me to a three year old as both asinine and condescending, perhaps much like your inane vanity blog. Who really gives a shit why you choose to be a moron? Robert Oxton Bolt once described belief as not an idea the mind possesses but an idea that possesses the mind. It's not a great ...
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11 hours ago ·
Buzz Dixon @MCW -- And you think I haven't? You think Christians who are serious about their faith have never gone through periods of doubt, disbelief, introspection, and have not looked into the moral, philosophical, and theological teachings of others?
Faith and belief are not rooted on imaginary, unprovable things; quite the contrary, faith and belief ...
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11 hours ago ·
Sherri Stoner wow. what a thread!
11 hours ago ·
Michael Chase Walker I don't even know how to answer such a hugger-mugger of convoluted and contradictory rationale, but it does explain your penchant for the absurd. From your own hagiography it appears all you've done is returned to the religion of your up bringing. How sad. I will encourage you thusly, do not longer long in your mediocre wool-gathering, Buzz, keep going, I know you will break free. I have faith!
11 hours ago ·
Sherri Stoner oh michael you had to go and spoil a lovely argument by calling buzz a moron. he's obviously not. and neither are you. but now you've ruined the debate.
11 hours ago ·
Buzz Dixon @Sherri -- Nonsense, the debate isn't ruined until one of us calls the other a Nazi and the other responds by asking "Exactly how tiny >is< your penis?"
10 hours ago ·
Michael Chase Walker Sorry, if I seem too judgmental, I know how brilliant Buzz is, but after he inferred I was a 3 year old I felt I had the liberty to call a spade a spade. I did call him brilliant, too! See? Besides, I don't mind being judgmental, as I am not a christian we have no commandment to inhibit us...lol
10 hours ago ·
Sherri Stoner Alright. Resume. You fatty retards.
10 hours ago ·
Mary Pendergast Flint's a deacon?!
9 hours ago ·
Flint Dille Not anymore. I was a pretty inept Deacon. Taught a Bethel Class for 10 years, though.
8 hours ago ·
Kevin Maurice Interesting discussion.
@Michael - I think you will find the video "Symbols of an Alien Sky" fascinating. It reveals much about the symbols you reference. Info regarding it here: http://www.thunderbolts.info/resources.htm#SYMBOLS
8 hours ago ·
Buzz Dixon @Flint -- The Presbyterian church doesn't let go >that< easily, Flint! once a deacon/elder, always a deacon/elder; you're just not on active duty right now.
8 hours ago ·
Michael Chase Walker @kevin, yes man, you understand. With all the information available today, to condescend to "mere christianity" is an affront to the contemporary zeitgeist; an unforgivable acquiescence to a tired old paradigm that swallows up intellectuals as sure as any black hole. Buzz, with all his intellectual pedigree betrays what is possible, by ...
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8 hours ago ·
Christopher Kent Just wanted to take a moment to applaud Buzz.
8 hours ago ·
Sheryl Scarborough @Sherri = ditto!
6 hours ago
Yesterday at 9:57am ·
Scott P. Schomer Ha! Even lefties, I love it.
Yesterday at 10:05am ·
Janet Batchler No, corporations are not innately evil. (Heck, I'm a corporation!) But do you want to vote to make one particular corporation a monopoly and block all paths to any competition against it, and moreover to enshrine that in the state constitution? That's what Prop 16 does, and all their "right to vote" propaganda is pure bullshit.
Yesterday at 10:05am ·
Buzz Dixon @Janet -- >you< are not a corporation, you own a corporation
@Flint -- corporations are not evil but rather amoral. They are interested only in profit and take careful steps to isolate their owners & employees from the consequences of their actions. They justify all their actions by how much money they return to their owners. It's the love of ...
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Yesterday at 10:27am ·
Craig Miller No one is saying corporations are evil. But these two propositions are. The promotion of them is misleading. False, even. And they are specifically to the detriment of the public. If PG&E wants to compete, be competitive; don't try to outlaw the existence of competition. Mercury is claiming 17 reduces rates when it actually does the opposite. Corporations aren't evil. Lying for profit is.
Yesterday at 10:28am ·
Flint Dille I think there are lots of other roots of evil than money. C'mon. Pride, Envy, Anger, Sloth, AVARICE, Gluttony and Lust. Avarice doens't even make the top half of the list.
Yesterday at 10:29am ·
Craig Miller So one evil is okay because there are others? "Don't punish him. He only murdered one guy. That guy over there killed six."
Yesterday at 10:30am ·
Flint Dille Is that the 'Reductio Ad Absurdum" that was so heavily discussed the other day. Obviously, I was responding to the rather threadbare old chestnut 'money is the root of all evil.'
New Rhet idea. Just because something is a cliche, doesn't make it true.
Yesterday at 10:32am ·
Janet Batchler It is an old chestnut. Almost 2000 years old. "The love of money is the root of all evil." -- I Tim 6:10
Yesterday at 10:37am ·
Flint Dille My NIV says: For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
The 'kinds of' makes it a statement I can believe in. The same way, "I kind of forgot myself' makes me believe Dirty Harry, because I really don't forget that Harry Callighan forgets how many bullets he fires.
Yesterday at 10:39am ·
Craig Miller No, Flint. Your comment was the Reducto ad Absurdum. What difference does it make if Buzz quoted the Bible? He was making a point. You ignored his point to chide his use of a cliche. His point still holds. And just because a corporation loves money, doesn't mean the public should bend over for them.
Yesterday at 10:40am ·
Buzz Dixon @Flint -- Money buys you access to the other 7 deadly sins. And you're a deacon, you should know better: St. Paul didn't write "Money is the root of all evil" but "The >love< of money is the root of all evil."
And don't get me started on the original meanings of stereotype and cliche' (printing terms). Cliches can't become cliches unless there is some truth to them, the problem is when people use cliches instead of thinking.
Yesterday at 10:41am ·
Flint Dille See above. Buzz misquoted the bible -- or at least a sensible interpretation of the bible, because, even on first blush, there's plenty of evil in it that has nothing to do with money - starting with Eve and the apple which, given there was no economy at the time, probably wasn't a monetary issue.
Also, nice reductio ad absurdum at the end. I never said we should bend over for them.
Yesterday at 10:42am ·
Buzz Dixon @Flint -- #1 I did not misquote the Bible. You're talking to a 7-yr veteran of So. Bapt. Vacation Bible Schools -- careful who you're slappin' Bible leather with, podnuh!
#2 The real root of evil is the love of self over the love of God and others (which is why Christ quoted Rabbi Hillel and said the 2 greatest commandments were to love God and...
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Yesterday at 10:47am ·
Flint Dille Slap with Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_of_all_evil
Yesterday at 10:53am ·
Michael Kenney I just wish I had enough money to send my daughter to college this fall, pay my bills each month and pay off these annoying credit card bills.
Yesterday at 10:54am ·
Buzz Dixon @Flint -- I thot quoting Wikipedia as an authoritative source was one of the signs one had lost an argument. ;)
Yesterday at 11:00am ·
Buzz Dixon @Flint -- Seriously, Christ was pretty down on human beings accumulativing wealth. Easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man enter heaven, sell all you have and give it to the poor, the lilies of the fields, what profits a man to gain the world only to lose his soul, you cannot serve both God and Mamon [money], etc., etc., and of course, etc.
Yesterday at 11:03am ·
Flint Dille Buzz: Give it up. Its okay. Obviously, nobody in the bible thinks money is the root of all evil. Its just a misquote. Every translation throws in some version of 'all kinds' of evil. Cutting out the 'all kinds' dramatically changes the meaning. Everybody can agree with it. Let's move on.
New International Version (©1984)
For the love of ...
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Yesterday at 11:14am ·
Michael Chase Walker You cannot misquote or even quote a mythological personage. There is zero empirical evidence that "Christ" existed and zero historical evidence that the legendary "Jesus" of Nazareth" existed. Thus, Hitchens' maxim applies, "that which can be introduced without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Yesterday at 11:16am ·
Buzz Dixon @MCW -- The historical reality of the existence of Jesus is undisputed. The Epistles were written within a few years to a few decades after the crucifixion; since they repeatedly refer to Christ's death and resurrection and were for people who lived in the part of the world where those events occured, it would have been pretty easy to prove Jesus ...
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Yesterday at 11:27am ·
Michael Kenney Is this a good time to quote Douglas Adams?
Yesterday at 11:29am ·
Buzz Dixon @Flint -- What were you saying the other day about deliberately misquoting an opponent in a debate? Check my posts, I keep quoting the verse accurately. The New Testament, Christ in particular, sees wealth as an obstruction to a virtuous life and salvation.
Yesterday at 11:29am ·
Flint Dille Buzz... What did I misquote? Here's your quote:
"It's the love of money that is the root of all evil & once a corporation loses its founders, either thru purchase or death/retirement, then it tends to lose sight of any vision other than the acquisition of wealth"
I'm confused.
Yesterday at 12:21pm ·
Flint Dille Michael, I do have to go with Buzz on this. If judged by the standards of all other ancient scholarship, the existence of Jesus Christ is as well documented as virtually anything in antiquity. And far better documented than almost any history based on anything but the extreme upper and military classes. Heard a fascinating lecture by a my ...
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Yesterday at 12:25pm ·
G.D. Strauff I love all you guys so I'mma just watch, m k'ay?
Yesterday at 12:41pm ·
Sharon LaBorde Personally, I follow a fortune cookie fortune I got once:
"Money is the root of evil and man needs roots."
Yesterday at 12:44pm ·
Michael Chase Walker You're both referring to "pseudo-history" and what anthropologists term appropriately "pseudo-historic metamorphosis" the piling on of past mythological figures to impose and foster validity and timelessness to a more favorable and trendy up-to-date figure. The Christ/Jesus god/ man incarnate motif is as old as mankind and predates Christianity by...
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Yesterday at 1:07pm ·
Flint Dille No, this was a real ancient history professor at a real university going over the historical evidence of Christ based on the same rules he would use for, say Alexander the Great. No pseudo. He did not get into any mystical or theological issues. It was all real history all the time.
Yesterday at 1:26pm ·
Flint Dille Beyond that, we're in the area of BELIEF, the most inarguable and irreconcilable of the four types of arguments. Extremely argumentative, impossible to argue. Nobody can prove to you that God exists and you are in the even more impossible position of proving a negative.
Yesterday at 1:27pm ·
Michael Chase Walker No, you have it all backwards, my friend, you do not have to prove a negative, ergo "that which can be introduced without evidence i.e. god, can be dismissed accordingly. There's nothing more to say. The onus is on you to provide the evidence when you are positing the impossible.
Yesterday at 2:11pm ·
Flint Dille You have to prove something doesn't exist. I say it does. That's proving a negative. As long as your audience is Mr. Hitchens, you don't have to prove anything. He already agrees.
If your audience is anyone else, proof is what you and they agree is proof.
Now, we have a definitional debate. The 2nd most argumentative, yet inarguable kind of...
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Yesterday at 2:15pm ·
Flint Dille Or put another way, I can't prove it to you and I don't need to prove it to myself.
Yesterday at 2:16pm ·
Michael Chase Walker This is no longer a debate but mere semantics and something more akin to the childish, I know you are but what am I? As for your "history" professor you both might enjoy the antics of the crank physicist Dr. Parker, Ph.D who has opened his own "scientific" museum" dedicated to creationism... where dinosaurs roam the Garden of Eden with their fellow man.... As for Alexander's actual existence, I'll put my money on him above Jesus anytime.
Yesterday at 2:27pm ·
Buzz Dixon @MCW -- I understand your extreme reluctance to accept anything in the Bible as historically/archeologically verifiable (such as the existence of Jesus); it's much more comforting to be able to dismiss the entire thing than face the consequences of it being true.
Kinda like a 3 yr old hoping the bad doggie will go away if he closes his eyes...
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Yesterday at 2:52pm ·
Michael Chase Walker Thank you for the invitation, Buzz, but I take your likening me to a three year old as both asinine and condescending, perhaps much like your inane vanity blog. Who really gives a shit why you choose to be a moron? Robert Oxton Bolt once described belief as not an idea the mind possesses but an idea that possesses the mind. It's not a great ...
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11 hours ago ·
Buzz Dixon @MCW -- And you think I haven't? You think Christians who are serious about their faith have never gone through periods of doubt, disbelief, introspection, and have not looked into the moral, philosophical, and theological teachings of others?
Faith and belief are not rooted on imaginary, unprovable things; quite the contrary, faith and belief ...
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11 hours ago ·
Sherri Stoner wow. what a thread!
11 hours ago ·
Michael Chase Walker I don't even know how to answer such a hugger-mugger of convoluted and contradictory rationale, but it does explain your penchant for the absurd. From your own hagiography it appears all you've done is returned to the religion of your up bringing. How sad. I will encourage you thusly, do not longer long in your mediocre wool-gathering, Buzz, keep going, I know you will break free. I have faith!
11 hours ago ·
Sherri Stoner oh michael you had to go and spoil a lovely argument by calling buzz a moron. he's obviously not. and neither are you. but now you've ruined the debate.
11 hours ago ·
Buzz Dixon @Sherri -- Nonsense, the debate isn't ruined until one of us calls the other a Nazi and the other responds by asking "Exactly how tiny >is< your penis?"
10 hours ago ·
Michael Chase Walker Sorry, if I seem too judgmental, I know how brilliant Buzz is, but after he inferred I was a 3 year old I felt I had the liberty to call a spade a spade. I did call him brilliant, too! See? Besides, I don't mind being judgmental, as I am not a christian we have no commandment to inhibit us...lol
10 hours ago ·
Sherri Stoner Alright. Resume. You fatty retards.
10 hours ago ·
Mary Pendergast Flint's a deacon?!
9 hours ago ·
Flint Dille Not anymore. I was a pretty inept Deacon. Taught a Bethel Class for 10 years, though.
8 hours ago ·
Kevin Maurice Interesting discussion.
@Michael - I think you will find the video "Symbols of an Alien Sky" fascinating. It reveals much about the symbols you reference. Info regarding it here: http://www.thunderbolts.info/resources.htm#SYMBOLS
8 hours ago ·
Buzz Dixon @Flint -- The Presbyterian church doesn't let go >that< easily, Flint! once a deacon/elder, always a deacon/elder; you're just not on active duty right now.
8 hours ago ·
Michael Chase Walker @kevin, yes man, you understand. With all the information available today, to condescend to "mere christianity" is an affront to the contemporary zeitgeist; an unforgivable acquiescence to a tired old paradigm that swallows up intellectuals as sure as any black hole. Buzz, with all his intellectual pedigree betrays what is possible, by ...
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8 hours ago ·
Christopher Kent Just wanted to take a moment to applaud Buzz.
8 hours ago ·
Sheryl Scarborough @Sherri = ditto!
6 hours ago
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Shattered Sunroof
Flint Dille I was driving along on Coldwater Canyon and suddenly there was a loud explosion in my car, right above my head. The kind of one you expect the world to go black after. I looked up and for some reason. I'll never know why, my sun roof had exploded. The car dealer doesn't understand, either. Unexpected consequence of ...
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