How Stupid Are They?

[rogruth]

That was over fifty years ago. The amount of money involved was small. Of course it was the principle of the thing.
I did look into pursuing some options but it wasn't worth the time.

[Roy]

Roger, I can't imagine anyone feeling good about doing something like that. Especially, over the long run.

[webenda]

....In music I made a band arrangement of two non copyrighted public domain pieces and gave them to several other teachers.
I did not have a contract of any kind with them. One of them copyrighted it in his name and sold it to a publisher. I was SOL.

There must be some way of punishing that thief.

Have patience Murph, greedy people will be punished.

The Fourth Circle of Hell (Greed)



In the Fourth Circle of Hell, Dante and Virgil see the souls of people who are punished for greed. They are divided into two groups – those who hoarded possessions and those who lavishly spent it – jousting. They use great weights as a weapon, pushing it with their chests which symbolizes their selfish drive for fortune during lifetime. The two groups that are guarded by a character called Pluto (probably the ancient Greek ruler of the underworld) are so occupied with their activity that the two poets don’t try to speak to them. Here, Dante says to see many clergymen including cardinals and popes.
-- Dante Alighieri

https://youtu.be/xJ1oRqlDaII

[HONDO74]

Survey: 1 in 2 millennials would rather live in a socialist or communist country than capitalist one
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/1 ... /23266418/

American millennials say they would rather live in a socialist or communist country than a capitalist democracy. That’s according to a new survey from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

The data shows that one in two millennials would rather live in a socialist country than a capitalist one. Here are some other interesting numbers from the survey.

Twenty-two percent of those polled have a favorable view of Karl Marx, the father of communism and The author of the Communist Manifesto. And a lot of them see Joseph Stalin and Kim Jong Un as “heroes.”

[rogruth]

Hondo,
Are you surprised?
Who took the survey? Did they have any reason to want those results?
Many years ago I took a test that would supposedly help me decide what I should do after I grew up.
I always thought it was unfair to what I wanted to do and that was in music.
Example.Which would you rather do, repair barb wire fences or recharge storage batteries?
Wwyrd, sing in a chorus or play in an orchestra?
Wwyrd, drive a car or plow a field?
Music stuff was put against other music stuff so a person in music was not able to show interest in music.
There were no questions that were repair barb wire fences or play in a jazz band.
I remember these questions quite well.

Isn't it fairly easy to get the results you want on a survey with the way questions are asked and careful selection of participants?
After aall this stuff, I believe the resuts of the survey because I have talked with my grand kids.

[Tom Dempsey]

Perhaps because they are responding to the promises of the philosophy portrayed rather than the reality of life under those social constructs, hmmm?

[E7]

Give 'em free one way tickets to wherever they want to go. Don't come back! No loss!

[rogruth]

Perhaps because they are responding to the promises of the philosophy portrayed rather than the reality of life under those social constructs, hmmm?

Tom,
This is quite possible from what I have heard is being taught in colleges and even high schools today.

[webenda]

The data shows that one in two millennials would rather live in a socialist country than a capitalist one.

Which socialist country? Earlier this year I was in a car group when we got T-boned by Natasha (real name.) The four of us got out and Natasha started running away. We were shouting, "Are you hurt? Do you need medical help?" We stopped at her car to examine the damage. Natasha slowly came back and asked, while still a good distance away, "Are you going to beat me up?" To which we all assured her we were only concerned about her well being. Natasha came back and explained she was from Russia and had a job going to people's houses to deliver medicine, change their dressing, evaluate their medical condition, fix them a bit to eat, etc. She was a nurse from Russia.

Our driver (75-year-old lady in no condition to beat anyone up) called her husband to bring the other car. When he showed up and got out of the car Natasha panicked again and started backing up asking, "Is that your husband... is he going to beat me up?" The husband is only 72 but looks older than his wife and can barely walk due to back pain. He assured her he was not going to beat her up and inquired if she had been injured.

Then Natasha started fretting over her husband who was sure to beat her up over messing up the front of their new car. We assured her that the car was the least important thing, that she (Natasha) was the only thing of value. The car does not feel pain and can be repaired. If Natasha got mangled like the car, she might not ever be the same. Our driver asked, "Do you want me to speak to your husband?" Natasha declined. Her husband might come over and beat us up.

Natasha gave us a first-hand glimpse of life in Russia, one of the precious communist countries so admired by American millennials. We assured her that most people in the United States are far more mild-mannered than what she described people in Russia were like.

I wonder what Natasha thought was going to happen to her with the police showed up? The policeman who gave Natasha a ticket apologized for doing so. He told her he understood she was upset over the accident and damage to her car but, based on her own testimony, he had to cite her for failure to yield to traffic.

Reference: https://youtu.be/5iAmuBNKHbo
https://youtu.be/Syf1glYDCPI
https://youtu.be/7dqIPRYTWWA

Yeah, mild-mannered Americans.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Isn't it fairly easy to get the results you want on a survey with the way questions are asked and careful selection of participants?

It's is. You can get the answers you want; setting up an unbiased survey is actually pretty difficult to do.

AOL as a news source,

[HONDO74]

AOL as a news source,

Well yes, 90% of whats on AOL is Trump bashing by the Washington Post. You just have to wade through it to get to the other BS that's fun to read. Kind of like the Sundays comics used to be or reading the headlines of all those rags at the checkout lane in the Market.

The news sights are competing against the social media sights to give you all the news you will ever need.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

AOL as a news source,

Well yes, 90% of whats on AOL is Trump bashing by the Washington Post.

Actually, it's Thompson-Reuters and Business Insider - ever since Verizon migrated its e-mail business over to AOL, I get to see all this rubbish. The internet is not a good source of the news.

[rogruth]

I don't think I know what a reliable news source is or how to find one.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I don't think I know what a reliable news source is or how to find one.

I can really appreciate that honesty.

After this past 18 months, I am more skeptical of all sources than every before - ranges from total fabrication, myths and rumors, to totally 1-sided rubbish, to sound bites that only present a small fraction of the actual story.

I do tend to like the BBC news though........

[HONDO74]

AOL as a news source,

Well yes, 90% of whats on AOL is Trump bashing by the Washington Post.

Actually, it's Thompson-Reuters and Business Insider - ever since Verizon migrated its e-mail business over to AOL, I get to see all this rubbish. The internet is not a good source of the news.

My mistake Rufus. It was Yahoo news. They linked to the AOL article. Same CIRCUS just different players.