New GMC Rollout Hammer & Sickle Hibreed

Comrade Hizpower has sent us this report from the auto manufacturing front line:

Hizpower

I took this picture at joyous celebration in community as new GMC Rollout Hammer & Sickle Hibreed rolls out under glorious supreme leader Obama, even before he begins to "rule and reign."

One follower even commented to me that "he couldn’t believe how fast things are changing for the greater good of all, and that he would be grateful to work in this new state of the art automobile factory."

(Notice the motivational sign for others to be inspired to join the workers party)



 

Is that the Clampett's?? Is that Jethro driving?? Is Granny riding shotgun??
 

Komrade Zarkof

Is that the Clampett's?? Is that Jethro driving?? Is Granny riding shotgun??

Those religion and gun clinging redneck capitalists were done away with by the Party a long time ago comrade!!
 

Anonymous

Komrade Zarkof

Is that the Clampett's?? Is that Jethro driving?? Is Granny riding shotgun??

Those religion and gun clinging redneck capitalists were done away with by the Party a long time ago comrade!!

OMG!! Have I been purged??? Why am I "guest," have I been beaten so severely that I think that nothing has happened and nothing is wrong?? Oh, I forgot to log in, thats the reason I was asked to type strange hieroglyphics, I thought it something new at first.
 

That happens to me too. I frickin' hate it when I sign in, everything looks good, I look at a post, and all of a sudden, I'm signed out and I lose track of all the new posts I haven't seen yet.

It's even better when I sign in, and it doesn't even sign me in at all! It just thinks that I've seen all the new posts in the micro-nanosecond that I was apparently logged in for, and then logs me out when the page refreshes. At one point I tried logging in 5 times in a row and it didn't work. Then for a few days, the only way I could accurately log in was to go through the private message login.

And it just happened to me today... again.
 

Premier Betty

That happens to me too. I frickin' hate it when I sign in, everything looks good, I look at a post, and all of a sudden, I'm signed out and I lose track of all the new posts I haven't seen yet.

It's even better when I sign in, and it doesn't even sign me in at all! It just thinks that I've seen all the new posts in the micro-nanosecond that I was apparently logged in for, and then logs me out when the page refreshes. At one point I tried logging in 5 times in a row and it didn't work. Then for a few days, the only way I could accurately log in was to go through the private message login.

And it just happened to me today... again.

Premier Betty,



Do you log on from your e-mail box? Sometimes it signs me in. And sometimes it doesn't. It's a real pain when your type and phrase just what you want to say, only to have it erased, and have to begin all over again. You are not alone! Our Glorious Incarnite Trapezoid needs to be informed when you experience a bad experience in posting. So send him a e-mail if it keeps up, ok?
<karacter>

Over and out,

Che' Gourmet

BTW Is this new Party approved vehicle already powered by recycled resources? How fast will it go? Does this mean that my horse, Rocinante can outrun the new and improved vehicles of the World of Next week (if they don't get their bailout, wah, wah)Tuesday?
 

Premier Betty

That happens to me too. I frickin' hate it when I sign in, everything looks good, I look at a post, and all of a sudden, I'm signed out and I lose track of all the new posts I haven't seen yet.

It's even better when I sign in, and it doesn't even sign me in at all! It just thinks that I've seen all the new posts in the micro-nanosecond that I was apparently logged in for, and then logs me out when the page refreshes. At one point I tried logging in 5 times in a row and it didn't work. Then for a few days, the only way I could accurately log in was to go through the private message login.

And it just happened to me today... again.

Happens to Grigori too. Spoke to IT friend about this. Traffic to Cube may be monitored. Slight (nano second) interuption of channel may be confusing Cube server or server administrator making with the funny or server needs a good whack with a shovel.

The latter always works for me.
 

Comrade Che'

Engine powered by horse manure, mixed with Hope. You can ride horse and then ride in your new car!

PS, TY. You are most kind.

Your humble Spiritual Adviser,
Grigori
 

[off]Never had it happen to me, thank Stalin. I check the box to keep me logged on and it does--even when I reboot my Mac. Which has keychains which fill in blanks in web forms. In fact I only have to log on when I use a new computer which is not synched through MobileMe (which in some ways really sucks, much worse than .mac) but if I fill in a web page on one synched computer, the other ones fill in the blanks for me.
 

(off) Mac is very intuitive, smart technology. Like the Energizer Bunny, they keep going and going. If other computers are synched to Mac could explain the lack of problems. Grandson at Penn State has the latest notebook and Wow!

Che' is on to something about Logging in from e-mail. Tried it just before and I couldn't log in from notification link. Finally got in through browser.
 

[off]The synching was screwed up in the MobileMe rollout, but gets better. Jobs apologized. This is the first major software screwup.

I just got notice from Apple that my special-build 17" MacBook Pro (2.6GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB, 320GB drive 7200 RPM) was shipped yesterday for my personal use. This one here is going to drive scanners at County Clerk's offices for my business.

Grigori, the reason that I chose Macs is that in college my speciality was compiler construction and formal languages, and I got the data sheets for the 8086 and the 6800. The 8086 (PC) was an old 8080 chip with a few registers strapped on it. I knew that it would be hell to write a recursive language compiler for, and so it was. The 6800 (first Mac) had 24-bit addressing, which was cool for 1980. From the instruction sets I determined which was best suited for growth.

But also Apple is full of snotty control freaks which means that things tend to work. I don't know how Macroshaft does it--the combinations of machines and cards is factorial, and intractable. But I sort of feel sorry for Macroshaft. Have you seen their commercials? Bait-and-switch. "This is Vista. It's not as awful as you have heard." And then they have people who use Vista with their outdoor offices. One of them was a street vandal, or tagger. Then Gates with Seinfeld? WTF? There's huge resistance to getting rid of XP.

But until Apple fixes MobileMe, I'm not going to crow. Well, it still works fine just with a little weekly maintenance taking about 10 minutes. And I do have three machines synched.
 

(off) Still have my Se-30 and TRS-80. Can't bring myself to get rid of them.

It took years to get the bugs out of XP and they're peddling Vista?

Macroshaft, kinda says it all Vlad.
 

Grigori E.R.

(off) Still have my Se-30 and TRS-80. Can't bring myself to get rid of them.

It took years to get the bugs out of XP and they're peddling Vista?

Macroshaft, kinda says it all Vlad.

Grigori E.R.



Greetings, and now I know why I experience some really crazy stuff on my Party-issued computer. I'm unfortunate to have Vista! I download updates, daily, but there's so much BS to go through. I'm not as literate (by a long shot) as the Commissar and you, but I try, and the party-approved spousal unit usually figures out how I screwed up and fixes it. (so far!)

Always busy for the cause,

Che' Gourmet



Comrade, got your E-Mail but don't have much time today to respond, but I promise I will get back to you on our subject, OK?
 

Grigori E.R.

Comrade Che'

Engine powered by horse manure, mixed with Hope. You can ride horse and then ride in your new car!

PS, TY. You are most kind.

Your humble Spiritual Adviser,
Grigori

Grigori E.R.

You have forseen a new car in my future?? I am most pleased. And of course, Rocinante will do his part for the good of the Party too LOL I am also quite fond of motorcycles.

Notice to kitchen proles! There will be a mandatory meeting for all in the PHK this afternoon.
Anyone not in attendance will be immediately shot and used for soup! Now MOVE IT!

your uncommon Iron Chef,

Che' Gourmet
 

Quote:

Che Gourmet
that my horse

Horse used for riding?? Thats animalistic, unless party-approved spousal unit is horse of course? That is of course beastiality which is ok of course, of course in the glorious world of next tuesday which the progressives endorse, endorse!!
 

Bestiality is of course approved. It had to be from 1993 on.
 

I think Comrade Foxworthy is having a hay-day with the lady in the back.

(off)
If your wife is heavier than your truck, you might be a redneck.
 

If you live in the People's Republic of Texas, there is no such thing as a human being heavier than the trucks here.

Give a man living in Grapevine in a double-wide trailer house a dualie and he thinks he owns the road.
 

Commissar Theocritus

If you live in the People's Republic of Texas, there is no such thing as a human being heavier than the trucks here.

Give a man living in Grapevine in a double-wide trailer house a dualie and he thinks he owns the road.Than again, you live in Texas good sircomrade. While there are good Progressives like you there, there are also a lot of bitter-clingers, who take great pride in their double-wide trailer homes, their 22 caliber rifles, the weeds growing out of the 55 gallon blue drums, and most importantly, their trucks: wooden flat-bed, garbage bag window covers, and all.
 

Ah, Comrade Elliott, there are those but let's not forget all those people with $800/month truck payments and $350/month house payments who want his O'liness to take care of the payments. The house payments.
 

Oh how right you are good sircomrade. With Him in charge of the glorious housing mess crisis, soon, we all will have our houses taken care of as well.
 

Which poses the question: Why oh why did I save up to pay cash for things? Much smarter not to have.
 

I want my cardboard box upgraded with a double car garage, second story, and hot tub!
 

Commissar Theocritus

Which poses the question: Why oh why did I save up to pay cash for things? Much smarter not to have.

It's making me wonder why I'm working. I'd be at the bottom 50% of tax payers, so I'd get a tax-cut, and he'd provide me with everything I'd need, like a house and a car.
 

Don't forget the HD plasma widescreen TV.
 

Comrade Elliott, you have to work because the AARP, for which I qualify, is the richest demographic in America. You pay most of your taxes in Medicare and SS taxes, which go to pay people I could join in only nine years at 62 (Jeez. I just did the math.) And it's only fair that you, who are in the starting, and poorest, for now, demographic, should pay me, who gives cash for a few things.

Be sure to vote Democratic. To keep the greedy geezers in style.

Damn. Flip that burger to let me eat foie gras at the French Room in the Adolphus.
 

Commissar Theocritus

Comrade Elliott, you have to work because the AARP, for which I qualify, is the richest demographic in America. You pay most of your taxes in Medicare and SS taxes, which go to pay people I could join in only nine years at 62 (Jeez. I just did the math.) And it's only fair that you, who are in the starting, and poorest, for now, demographic, should pay me, who gives cash for a few things.

Be sure to vote Democratic. To keep the greedy geezers in style.

Damn. Flip that burger to let me eat foie gras at the French Room in the Adolphus.Oh, I see now. The AARP is powerful indeed, for the older people need their Viagra and DVR players to record re-runs of JAG and the Beverly Hillbillies. All I know is I couldn't live without either now, much less when I'm 60.
 

[off]The Greatest Generation truly did sacrifice in WII, and were scarred horribly by the Great Depression. But it amazes me how they grab everything from their grandchildren as an entitlement. SS is not funded; it is a pay-as-you-go system which has been expanded by political opportunists to the huge "entitlement" that it is today.

It will need fixing and not that far off. It is my hope to have enough money not to take from it when I can, in 9 years. Or 12. We'll see if I'm left with enough.
 

(off)
I'm 3 or 6 years away.
Re: Baby Boomers
There's an I.O.U. to SS Trust Fund sitting in a file cabinet somewhere in DC.
Amount = $ 5,000,000,000,000 (BB contributions a few years ago).

Yep, just put it on my tab. When it gets to the trillions just write another I.O.U.
The cabinet is full of them.

Then we can blame it all on those same Baby Boomers. They're going to break the bank!
 

Sea-Bass

Quote:

Che Gourmet
that my horse

Horse used for riding?? Thats animalistic, unless party-approved spousal unit is horse of course? That is of course beastiality which is ok of course, of course in the glorious world of next tuesday which the progressives endorse, endorse!!

Comrade Sea-Bass,

Hmmm......one of my favorite fish to cook and eat... My horse is off limits, comrade! What I do with him is no concern of yours, prole!......Now, where did I put that phone number.....dials Joe Balog, (Professional small mouth bass fishing guru)

riding Rocinante, any way I please,

Che' Gourmet

(what lies....I'm so misunderstood!)
 

Commissar Theocritus

[off]The Greatest Generation truly did sacrifice in WII, and were scarred horribly by the Great Depression. But it amazes me how they grab everything from their grandchildren as an entitlement. SS is not funded; it is a pay-as-you-go system which has been expanded by political opportunists to the huge "entitlement" that it is today.

It will need fixing and not that far off. It is my hope to have enough money not to take from it when I can, in 9 years. Or 12. We'll see if I'm left with enough.

You wonder why when I retire, I hope to not have to use any SS money to pay stuff off. Of course when I reture, err if I do, SS will probably be a thing of the past.
 

Comrade Elliott, I read that the return on SS is about 1%, which is horrible. By all means invest in other things as much as you can; despite downturns over time, and you have time, the market has done well. In fact an indexed fund (comprised of a broad spectrum of market stocks) has outperformed most all fancy mutual funds. Bear in mind that mutual funds are selling themselves. And here's a tip: make sure that the fund's objectives are yours--a good return. Any fund which has large management fees is making money managing you. And avoid annuities. Those enrich stockbrokers. In fact avoid stockbrokers. There are some good ones but their bottom line is determined by how often you trade, not how wisely. They benefit best when you are just at the edge of panic but not enough to fire them. A good stockbroker will sell you value stocks. The normal one will thrash your account.

I can't say what will happen politically except that sometime some people will get smart enough to see what will happen and demand a change. The Republicans have been thwarted time and again in their plans to privatize, well, anything, because that's letting go of power. And the greedy geezers, interested in only their own short term are perfectly willing to be complicit in robbing their children and grandchildren. (Lots of faith in how they raised them, isn't it?)

Look after yourself. It's wishful thinking to think that others will. You will get good treatment from people whose characters you know, or from people whose interests follow yours.
 

Commissar Theocritus

Comrade Elliott, I read that the return on SS is about 1%, which is horrible. By all means invest in other things as much as you can; despite downturns over time, and you have time, the market has done well. In fact an indexed fund (comprised of a broad spectrum of market stocks) has outperformed most all fancy mutual funds. Bear in mind that mutual funds are selling themselves. And here's a tip: make sure that the fund's objectives are yours--a good return. Any fund which has large management fees is making money managing you. And avoid annuities. Those enrich stockbrokers. In fact avoid stockbrokers. There are some good ones but their bottom line is determined by how often you trade, not how wisely. They benefit best when you are just at the edge of panic but not enough to fire them. A good stockbroker will sell you value stocks. The normal one will thrash your account.

I can't say what will happen politically except that sometime some people will get smart enough to see what will happen and demand a change. The Republicans have been thwarted time and again in their plans to privatize, well, anything, because that's letting go of power. And the greedy geezers, interested in only their own short term are perfectly willing to be complicit in robbing their children and grandchildren. (Lots of faith in how they raised them, isn't it?)

Look after yourself. It's wishful thinking to think that others will. You will get good treatment from people whose characters you know, or from people whose interests follow yours.I agree with you, as always, good sircomrade. Thank-you for these tips, when I get a little older and into the real world, these tips will make retirement easy to afford. This is all assuming we are still a capitalistic society.
 

Thank you, Comrade Elliott. I suspect that capitalism of some sort will survive although it's being whittled down by the day.

The sententious Commissar Theocritus

Look after yourself. It's wishful thinking to think that others will. You will get good treatment from people whose characters you know, or from people whose interests follow yours.
If you think about that statement, it's of general applicability no matter where you are. Unlike Red Square I've never been in the clutches of a totalitarian society and have always been able to at least appeal to the due process of law. A law which was meant to be fair.

But I think that that statement holds sway no matter where or who you are and like 2+2=4 is true and useful.
 

Recycled but trusty, glorious Trabant Hybrid!


 

Now that really is a Trabifurz.
 

Commissar Theocritus

Thank you, Comrade Elliott. I suspect that capitalism of some sort will survive although it's being whittled down by the day.

The sententious Commissar Theocritus

Look after yourself. It's wishful thinking to think that others will. You will get good treatment from people whose characters you know, or from people whose interests follow yours.
If you think about that statement, it's of general applicability no matter where you are.Unlike Red Square I've never been in the clutches of a totalitarian society and have always been able to at least appeal to the due process of law. A law which was meant to be fair.

But I think that that statement holds sway no matter where or who you are and like 2+2=4 is true and useful.

Commissar Theocritus

Unlike Red Square I've never been in the clutches of a totalitarian society . . .

Has comrade Red Square lived in a totalitarian country?
 

Yes, Red Square grew up in the Motherland, the USSR, and came to America for freedom of expression. And look at what he found in the MSM. Hence the Cube.

When you get a message noticing a reply, google the name of the sender of the message and you'll find some things worth reading.
 

Commissar Theocritus

Yes, Red Square grew up in the Motherland, the USSR, and came to America for freedom of expression. And look at what he found in the MSM. Hence the Cube.

When you get a message noticing a reply, google the name of the sender of the message and you'll find some things worth reading.Huh. . . that's a funny twist of irony if you ask me. A guy from the Soviet Union, comes to America, and make a website for conservatives disguising themselves as communists in order to point out the absurdity of communism/liberalism.

I love it!

By the way, I did google "Red Square" and only got tourist sites. I'll look a little harder later though.

By the way, again, this is, I believe, day 4 our all our threads.
 

Comrade, Google Oleg Atbashian. You'll be pleasantly surprised.

He told me that he was a believer in the big lie, then a skeptic, then a doubter and now is an enemy. He thought that he could come here and (not his words) blow the top off that kid-gloved treatment of totalitarianism. But he found that the people here in a free country were as bad, without having to be.

Let that one sink in.

And that's why he has the Cube. It's a diverse set of people. Military, ex-military, and there are a few gays who insist on thinking for themselves. A heterogeneous group.
 

Commissar Theocritus

Comrade, Google Oleg Atbashian. You'll be pleasantly surprised.

He told me that he was a believer in the big lie, then a skeptic, then a doubter and now is an enemy. He thought that he could come here and (not his words) blow the top off that kid-gloved treatment of totalitarianism. But he found that the people here in a free country were as bad, without having to be.

Let that one sink in.

And that's why he has the Cube. It's a diverse set of people. Military, ex-military, and there are a few gays who insist on thinking for themselves. A heterogeneous group.A true heterogeneous group indeed, it isn't just who you described, but people who support his version of progressiveness (conservatives mostly).

You want to talk about a story though, wow, his is quite an interesting one, though I've found some of the greatest conservatives were liberals at some point (Ronaldus Mangnus, hmm. . . ).
 

David Horowitz, Peter Collier, Dennis Miller...

There's even a group called South Park Conservatives. I've got a book entitled that but haven't read it. Yet.
 

Commissar Theocritus

David Horowitz, Peter Collier, Dennis Miller...

There's even a group called South Park Conservatives. I've got a book entitled that but haven't read it. Yet.I haven't heard of the book, but I have heard a commentary before about the creators of South Park. They love to make fun of liberals due to their foolishness, but they don't vote. I'm not sure exactly about South Park conservatives, as in plural, however.
 

South Park Conservatives. Liberals are very easy to make fun of. They went from a noble idea--laissez faire--to a cultish intolerance in the space of a few decades. A friend who lives in San Francisco said that he like the openness there, that one can say what one wants, but the single thing that you cannot say or do is be Republican. Some tolerance.
 

I've said it once, and I'm always happy to say it again, Democrats are the party of tolerance, except to any and all dissent. We both know the reason why they are.
 

They are people of tastes rather than ethics.
 

Commissar Theocritus

They are people of tastes rather than ethics.MmmHmm. . .
 

Ethics are no respecter of persons--if you are ethical it applies to you as though you weren't there.

But "there's no accounting for tastes," or in French "à chacun son goût" or in Latin, "de gustibus non disputandum." That's been true for millennia.
 

Commissar Theocritus

Ethics are no respecter of persons--if you are ethical it applies to you as though you weren't there.

But "there's no accounting for tastes," or in French "à chacun son goût" or in Latin, "de gustibus non disputandum." That's been true for millennia.True, the thing is though tastes are personal, as such, opinions are a person's own.
 

It's the personal thing that they like. Moral behavior stands above personal choices.
 

Commissar Theocritus

It's the personal thing that they like. Moral behavior stands above personal choices.And there in lays their selfishness, their greed for power over everyone else. Where as you and I see people as having the ability to chose their own fate,path, choices, etc. They see people needing to follow their "example" of good behavior.