French politicians want to tax tablets for not running Windows

[Goh Lip]

On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:49:54 +0800, Samuel Thurston  
<sam.thurston at gmail.com> wrote:

> It really seems as though the value of good-old-fashioned reading has
> diminished in public discourse. It truly makes me sad to see someone
> forming an argument which cannot be refuted on the grounds that it
> essentially refutes itself though improper definition of terms.   And
> sadly, in the USA, that's what 80% of the "debate" is.  The remaining
> 20% seems to come down to declaring that the other half of your
> country that doesn't agree with you ideologically are imbecilic
> terrorists who can't be negotiated with; But why can't those bastards
> in Washington ever accomplish anything?
> SNIPPED a lot of good stuff...


It has to be pointed out though, many of your countrymen have real  
grievances. They live their lives by making  good decent jobs, trying to  
bring up good decent kids, go to god-fearing (sorry, cannot resist)  
churches, with hard work, good protestant (or catholic, mormon, sorry  
again, cannot resist) ethics and so they thought they can live the  
american dream, where freedom, democracy, capitalism and religion reigns  
supreme.

To wake up one day to a nightmare and your hard-earned savings diminished  
is nothing to sniff at. Yet both sides of the political spectrum tells  
them 'they are you' and 'feel their pain', yet nothing has changed. It is  
not surprising the 'common people' needs to lash out, and not surprising  
shenanigans take advantage of them and point them to other bogeymen.

I would not disparage their anger or lack of understanding, for they have  
contributed much and received far less.



-- 
I used to have an open mind,
but my brains kept falling out.