Scott Adams Thread (Garfield Cartoonist)

[freebeard]

I'll admit it -- I'm using the thread for a link dump.

I'm currently listening to five hours of Gypsy Ska at x.75 Gypsy Ska Jazz Orchestra: Energetic Harmony and Soulful Melodies, and thinking about how the Beatle's lyrics to Get Back cut a little differently today:

Songfacts
Lyrics for Get Back by The Beatles - Songfacts
Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman But she was another man All the girls around her say she's got it coming But she gets it while she can Oh, get back, get back Get back to where you once belonged

[Piotrsko]

Your version of what they mean will be as accurate as anybody's. Apparently a lot of different scholars have a lot of different answers and the author(s?) has left many trails of crumbs while not actually admitting to any.

By any chance Hungarian gypsy Ska?

[redpoint5]

SA touched on one of the subjects that irritates me more than most, is more important than most people realize or care, and then provided the very dumbest solution.

Congresses A1, numero uno, most important duty is to set a budget in accordance with revenue. Scott gets this part right. Congress has failed their primary purpose for existing every year except 2001. Deficit spending fighting Nazis in WWII is understandable. What is the existential crisis we are fighting to justify deficit spending now?

Scott proposes that we pay a bonus $300,000 to every member of congress when they perform the most basic task they were elected to accomplish, as an incentive to do their job.

If I hired someone to mow my lawn and paid them every week, but every week I look at the grass and find that it was not cut, then ask why, and was told that instead of cutting the grass, they spent their time rallying for men to access women's showers, and promoting cosmetic surgery that renders organs non-functional for confused children, I would stop paying them.

The correct solution is to not pay people who are not performing the job they were hired for.

[freebeard]

By any chance Hungarian gypsy Ska?

Follow the link?

I clicked the first link in the upper left of my home page and watched 3/4ths of the Episode before I realized I'd seen it before, when he talked about Boring Co in Dubai. So two simultaneous sips.

Shows how much I retain.

What is the existential crisis we are fighting to justify deficit spending now?

It exists, but justifies the opposite.

[Piotrsko]

Tend to not follow posted links. Keeps them softly wares uncorrupted in my machine.

[freebeard]

Do you click on embeds?

Gypsy Ska Jazz Orchestra: Energetic Harmony and Soulful Melodies

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Do you click on embeds?

Gypsy Ska Jazz Orchestra: Energetic Harmony and Soulful Melodies

Usually I do not click on any link without commentary about what it is, or what someone thinks about it.

[freebeard]

Guess I'm the hippy skipping bare-footed through the fields.

My commentary was that it sounded good at x.75.

[Piotrsko]

It is much improved at a slower pace of playback. Becomes more like Polka, imho.

I believe you were fortunate enough to leave the field before everything was connected so there weren't much malware available that you didn't load on floppies copied from friends with dubious games.

[freebeard]

I was fortunate enough to have spent nine years in an expensive chair with Symantec, resolving people's problems with M$ Windows virii, ...and Macintosh data lose.