Word: slaving
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...yellow Triumph Spitfire he bought for $2,000"). These folks treasure their cars and might not think highly of a fellow who stole them. Yet the film has few quibbles about the ethics of boosting. Hey, guys in the film (and guys who made it): maybe a wage slave left his PC in the trunk of that Toyota you stole; maybe a child's first drawing is in the glove compartment of that HumVee pickup. For people who love their cars to make a movie that lionizes a person who steals them is a textbook case of sociopathic schizophrenia...
...devoid of every moral principle - a bastard...." If Jefferson should win the election (as of course he did), the Connecticut Courant warned, "Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will all be openly taught and practiced..." Of course, the vicious campaign rumor that Jefferson had sired several children with his slave Sally Hemings turns out to be true...
...first PDAs were used for slave work, like the putting in and the getting out of addresses, which was how humans found one another in days before the Implanting of the chips. Also therein they stored their kalendars, which was how they knew to be somewhere and when to be there. This was in the days of the going about, before the Final Connecting, which did away with the need for the going about...
...yourself, and it will all work out. People act like they have it all figured out; but if you don't have a New York consulting or I-banking job offer do not worry; those people will be envying the fact that you have a social life; while they slave away for 90 hours a week...
...Clark, mentioned above, is no charmer, as revealed by Michael Lewis in The New New Thing. In fact, to my reading, he comes off as about as delectable as Donald Trump. But he's pure American bravado, a bravado that was lost in the Babbitt-Dilbert-Big Bureaucracy-Cubicle Slave decades...