I'd suggest that this is yet another on a long list of reasons to stop seeing rock shows at SPAC, but it's been such a long time since anything worth the cost and hassles of an arena show has played there that I really can't say I go anyway. Promoters like Live Nation must believe that people are really stupid, with some trading a week's pay for a night out; sadly there are enough people out there who will happily comply with that assumption.
There seems to be a Pavlovian response with some people to floor it at the sight of a turn signal. What these knuckleheads don't seem to realize is that when a car ahead of them is making a signal, they're not asking permission, they're making a statement: "I'm changing lanes." Why do they get so upset when people actually follow through on their promise?
Tommy, a deposit on certain electronics items might not be a bad idea. Mobile phones today are for all practical purposes disposable; most people trade up to a newer one every few years, and since brand new phones can be inexpensively purchased with a service commitment there is no aftermarket to resell old phones. What you end up with is tens of millions of phones getting land filled each year, even as toxic metals inside poison the soil and water and the price of precious metals like tantalum shoot through the roof. It's not just an ecological issue, people are actually getting killed over materials used in our phones (Google the words coltan and Congo; coltan is the ore from which tantalum is derived.)
Americanman, there is no such thing as a true American car. The major auto manufacturers are global companies, and the components that make up your car are made in any number of plants in any number of countries. Foreign companies building plants in America represent billions of dollars of investment in our country in an era when the Big Three were moving many operations to Mexico and beyond. My Honda was made in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, in a plant that provides good jobs to 13,000 people. It's eight years old and has so far required one new set of brakes, one new set of tires, and one new catalytic converter. It is not a shoebox on wheels.
Schdygirl, the problem with your scenario is that SS is not a fund you pay into that grows over the years like a managed fund. SS is a massive scale Ponzi scheme that relies on having more people paying in than receiving benefits. There is no interest, there are only adjustments for inflation. Around the time of the introduction of birth control pills in the 1960s, the birth rates dropped precipitously and didn't pick up again for another 20 years or so. People born in 1945 are starting to hit retirement age soon. In short, we're screwed. There is no way that it can be sustained without a large increase on taxation or reduction in benefits.
The area has a terrible music scene, and I'm really not sure who to blame for this. Is it the people who book the shows, or the people who don't go to anything worthwhile when it's here? Granted, there have been brilliant eras that seem to last a few years at a clip, but they're broken up by seeming eons of doldrums. Aside from a few good shows at the Egg, and one really amazing set at Northern Lights last week, everything I've seen in the past few years has required a minimum of an hour and a half driving. It's great to have excuses to get out of town and see a bit of the Northeast, but there is also a lot to be said for getting home before midnight.
Adirondackal, do modern conservatives ever say anything without looking up the facts first? And does everything have to be loaded with such hatred and bitterness? I don't mean that as a personal attack, it seems endemic to conservatism in general. What happened to first rate minds who espoused conservatism, like Buckley or Strauss? Are people like that still around, or did they get drowned out by Fox Noise and any number of creeps and cretins in the blogosphere?
Conservatives need to get over it, your side lost, you lost big time, it was an epic fail for the record books, and it wasn't because of corporate machinations. 88% of Obama's war chest came from INDIVIDUALS. You know, like every day people who pay bills and such, and who probably don't hide their income in offshore accounts. The conservative world view had it's chance and the people spoke.
Poindexter was the super high IQ nephew of the Professor in the Felix the Cat cartoons. Since then, Poindexter or just Dexter has come to mean a studious nerd. http://www.felixthecat.com/friends-poind...
For the record, I was kidding about Obama. Some people have no sense of humor, believe everything they hear, and have no critical thinking or reasoning skills, and AM radio is tailor made for them. They should all cling to their guns in bed at night and ponder why the majority of Americans think that they're nuts.
Posted on July 25 at 4:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I'd suggest that this is yet another on a long list of reasons to stop seeing rock shows at SPAC, but it's been such a long time since anything worth the cost and hassles of an arena show has played there that I really can't say I go anyway. Promoters like Live Nation must believe that people are really stupid, with some trading a week's pay for a night out; sadly there are enough people out there who will happily comply with that assumption.
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