14
Oct
Posted by Dwayne as Video Games, consumerism
Well for those of you readers that are WoW fanatics, welcome to the start of another QQ fest!
Today they released 3.0.2 and I specc’d my Warrior and Mage played 2 games of AV and BAM the bugs started happening. Right now the Blizzard mainframe appears to be dead promising start to the new expansion(not yet released but some are considering the patch part of it….which it is)
Anyways Warriors are fun Druids are still OP i’m looking at my mage like “Wait theres more than one viable dps spec now? NO WAY!” surprisingly even the people i know who theory craft dont even know what to do and I cant get answers because the servers are down as well as the Blizzard website.
More on this tomorrow
02
Jan
Posted by Kyle as consumerism
I think it is time to get rid of the paper dollar. According to the US mint (2002), making the change over to the dollar coin will save 500 million dollars. Bills last only a few years while coins last about 30 years. According to several reports it is due to personal opposition that the dollar bill has not gone away. I think the federal government needs to man up and just do away with the dollar bill. I doubt it will create such as big stir that congressmen will be kicked out of office. If they are worried, why not just give everyone 2 dollars for the first 5 years? It would cost the government the same amount of money as sticking with the bill for 5 years, however, now everybody can get two 99 cent burgers a year for free. After 5 years, people would realize that the dollar coin is not that bad. Vending machines will accept dollar coins by then, and pennies would become even more obsolete allowing them to be trashed (saving more $). Though I suppose some places will still need the good old dollar bill. Strip clubs. Because if you think the general public hates receiving dollar coins, strippers hate it even more.
16
Dec
Posted by admin as Ramblings, consumerism
In the most purchasing situations, there is always one product that stands up and declares, “I am morally superior.” There’s the organic foods and the non-animal tested shampoos. There’s the “we donate money for every purchase of this product you make.” There’s the “we’re a Walmart house brand, so buy anything else since Walmart is the embodiment of evil and you’re a dirty hippie.”
But with razors, there is no moral superiority. Do you want three, four, or five blades? Are you bad at math and think that a bag of one-blade disposables is best? Whatever you purchasing reason is, it’s probably not a moral thing (except for women who don’t buy razors at all because every corporation is corrupt and instead choose to mimic the body of a ferret. Ferrets smell. So does au natural. We’ll get back to this later).
I prefer this equal footing. It allows me to buy my razor of choice wherever I want. Let’s say the closest store is Whole Foods. Well, there they are, on their high horse, declaring for all the world their own moral superiority. They don’t carry half the things I want, such as cheap enough food that I can afford to eat a meal everyday. But they do carry my razors.
(FP!)