tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post4327537610938216322..comments2024-03-28T21:32:41.763-05:00Comments on driftglass: Sunday Morning Comin' Downdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-50011985589075085272014-07-08T11:20:25.938-05:002014-07-08T11:20:25.938-05:00The mainstream kinda-sorta-maybe homeopathically-d...The mainstream kinda-sorta-maybe homeopathically-diluted Left in the USA appeals to Mr. Hodgson's "right people", and doesn't care if anyone outside the charmed circle of the Kewl Kidz gets it or not.<br /><br />The mainstream Right in the USA carefully concocts <i>its</i> propaganda to appeal to the average citizen, using images anyone in the USA of normal intelligence has seen before, and words they have heard before. <br /><br />I trust you've noted their differing levels of success?Monster from the Idnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-84483501071134510592014-07-08T10:29:58.313-05:002014-07-08T10:29:58.313-05:00"We never say, 'Who's going to get th..."We never say, 'Who's going to get this?' We always say, 'The <i>right</i> people will get this.'" -- Joel Hodgson<br /><br />"Txffu Mpwfs" is revealed in Spider Robinson's "The Blacksmith's Tale" (one of the last Callahan's Place stories to be set at the original Place) as the birth name of "The Guy with the Eyes" from the story of that name (the very first Callahan's story); I put it that way because telling you the use-name he adopts at the end of that story would constitute a spoiler for those who haven't read it.<br /><br />The terms "lugallim" and "zeki" are from Fredy Perlman's classic of anarcho-primitivist philosophy <i>Against His-Story, Against Leviathan</i>. The moment when the ruler of some city-state in the Fertile Crescent realized he could set the captives his followers had taken from another city to doing the shit-work and leave his own people free to pursue higher things than day-to-day drudgery was, in Perlman's reconstruction, the birth of what he called "Leviathan" and the Eislerians call "dominator society", of <i>lugallim</i> -- kings who claimed the ordination of the nearest convenient deity -- and <i>zeki</i> -- slaves, those defined as legally subhuman. (Perlman ports the Sumerian and Russian words directly into English, pluralizing them as "lugals" and "zeks" -- a convention I've obviously not followed.)<br /><br />If I have to explain deliberately stepping into the street and methodically knocking people's hats off, your education has failed.<br /><br />And now you know... the smuggest of the story.Neo Tuxedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455041641080873400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-10208303295454797332014-07-08T10:06:09.378-05:002014-07-08T10:06:09.378-05:00Thanks for chasing all the girls away from the clu...Thanks for chasing all the girls away from the club house.Dannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-41766488852654103742014-07-08T09:39:05.545-05:002014-07-08T09:39:05.545-05:00Wait until Billy Bob's wive tells him he can&#...Wait until Billy Bob's wive tells him he can't buy that new pickup because there's another baby on the way because her boss didn't approve of her lifestyle. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Fritz Strandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12733366866269874594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-63334533407215011512014-07-08T08:34:13.215-05:002014-07-08T08:34:13.215-05:00*sigh* I wish that NT had used less obscure refere...*sigh* I wish that NT had used less obscure references. I assume NT is referring to some F&SF work which I have not read. :p<br /><br />The elite should not place such confidence in their programming. Some of the Uruk-hai are showing signs of breaking free. If enough of them do, the Tea Party might become a genuine 3rd party.<br /><br />Dr. Frankenstein did not think his monster would turn on him, either--and Ruk finally decided that <i>"Survival must cancel programming."</i><br /><br />(See, NT? Most of us know at least the basics of <b>Frankenstein</b>, <b>The Lord of the Rings</b>, and <b>Star Trek</b>.) Monster from the Idnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-49067883568145136182014-07-07T18:13:04.718-05:002014-07-07T18:13:04.718-05:00As Fiorina was beginning her tenure as CEO of HP, ...As Fiorina was beginning her tenure as CEO of HP, I was involved in reverse-engineering the laser printer cartridges for HP's line of printers. HP did not manufacture these cartridges; they were made by Canon, and all the patents belonged to Canon.<br /><br />Canon had a cross-license on laser cartridge technology with IBM, and that license went to Lexmark when it was spun off by IBM.<br /><br />After HP cancelled a deal for Lexmark to remanufacture their empty LaserJet cartridges, Lexmark decided to reverse-engineer and manufacture clones of the most popular (and most profitable) LaserJet cartridges.<br /><br />I led a team that reverse-engineered, tooled and manufactured cartridges for three HP printers. Ours were equal in print quality and reliability, up to 30% greater yield and 10% lower in price.<br /><br />HP lowered its price: Lexmark went down another 10%. Rinse, repeat a number of times.<br /><br />Lexmark's market penetration was only about 5%, and still made money at the lower prices. HP had to pay Canon to make its cartridges, so the price cuts were more costly to HP.<br /><br />Cartridges are the profit-makers in the printer biz, but here is the thing HP never figured out: For every dollar of profit HP denied Lexmark via its price war, it denied $19 of profit to HP.sticklerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468746880489986775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-54390798755726005922014-07-07T17:07:28.865-05:002014-07-07T17:07:28.865-05:00Ambulatory moral syphilis is probably the most apt...Ambulatory moral syphilis is probably the most apt description of Newt Gingrich I've ever seen. Thanks again, DG.Cinesiashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14996950964848333121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-87542780510293478932014-07-07T10:35:56.934-05:002014-07-07T10:35:56.934-05:00Also too, what waldo said. I expect any day to fin...Also too, what waldo said. I expect any day to find out DG's true identity from news reports of a Chicago man deliberately stepping into the street and methodically knocking people's hats off.Neo Tuxedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455041641080873400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-82547849551270857112014-07-07T10:34:11.850-05:002014-07-07T10:34:11.850-05:00Id, "the welfare state for our feudal lords a...Id, "the welfare state for our feudal lords and their high-ranking henchpeople" has always been around; it's the essence of dominator society. "Crony capitalism" is just how it manifests in this day and age.<br /><br />And I, too, wish I could be sure they were wrong. But I think the way the lugallim encourage the zeki to gun up is not so bizarre, considered as a sign of how confident they are in their programming of the masses. The white zeki (including those who just <i>identify</i> as white) will never turn their guns on their masters, any more than Txffu Mpwfs could have turned his weapons on his Beastly master or any other Blattid. The zeki of color might, but the white zeki are pre-emptively aimed at them.Neo Tuxedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455041641080873400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-40737088545463148422014-07-07T08:55:55.758-05:002014-07-07T08:55:55.758-05:00Anon @ 6:35 AM:
That wouldn't work, either. I...Anon @ 6:35 AM:<br /><br />That wouldn't work, either. It would merely cause the neo-feudal lords who compose our misruling class to turn their Panopticon Police State up to 11.<br /><br />They think <i>this</i> time, the surveillance capability available to a police state has become so powerful that such a police state can nip all truly dangerous dissent in the bud, so they only need the police state, without any welfare state (for us peasants) worth mentioning. They think <i>their</i> police state will spare them the fates of the French and Russian aristocracies.<br /><br />I wish I could be sure they were wrong about that--though yes, it is bizarre that the U. S. right wing, which serves the interests of the rich faithfully in other ways, does not merely blithely allow members of the exploited classes to arm themselves, but staunchly defends their right to do so.<br /><br />***********<br /><br />NOTE: I said "for us peasants" above to distinguish between the welfare state for us peasants and the welfare state for our feudal lords and their high-ranking henchpeople, aka "crony capitalism".Monster from the Idnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-602545025647699712014-07-07T08:34:30.799-05:002014-07-07T08:34:30.799-05:00Carly Fiorona says it's "...birth control...Carly Fiorona says it's "...birth control for free." <br />For free? Gee, and I thought these folks worked for a living. <br />Maybe they do these jobs as a favor to the boss and their pay checks are just party favors. And those health care benefits? Well help yourself but don't take too much 'cause they are for free, ya know.Frednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-79431143387371913682014-07-07T06:35:08.783-05:002014-07-07T06:35:08.783-05:00I just assume Carly, and her ilk, to be an alien f...I just assume Carly, and her ilk, to be an alien form of extra-terrestrial life. "Carrot Top" was the quote I took away. Unfortunately, you can't ridicule the privileged back to reality. I fear it's going to take something like an open-carry prole plinking at the local country club or taking out the front row of the Kentucky Derby to get their attention undivided.<br /><br />Let the games begin.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-59191234567331637862014-07-07T03:58:07.401-05:002014-07-07T03:58:07.401-05:00Mate, your compulsion to bring the monster to task...Mate, your compulsion to bring the monster to task is wearing you down - take a break, have a sleep, catch a fish, listen to some music. Then jump back into it; you're indispensable.waldonoreply@blogger.com