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News Briefs 08-11-2016

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Thanks Rick and Norman.

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  1. Alex “Bill Hicks” Jones
    Yeah – this is one of those “If you say it, they will come” sort of conspiracy theories.

    Alex Jones says precisely the opposite of the things that Bill Hicks said and stood for.

    Must be the same guy….

    smh

  2. universal basic income
    I have read science fiction about people receiving income because they are breathing. In Obamacare, I was threatened with having to pay extra taxes because I didn’t have health insurance but I survived, so I owed the government money for my survival. I got out of that because I was a citizen of a foreign country.

    Then I look at this universal income idea. And I look at how many, many of us make money today. A lot of us do nothing useful. Most bureaucrats just slow down the economy. Many “artists” make crappy art. Many entertainers make crappy entertainment. Add your least favourite to the list.

    Why not pay people for being alive? Instead of paying them in some job that they do badly, thereby slowing things down?

    n the olden days, we needed everyone to grow food. We don’t need that any more. Got past it, we grow food now (meat or veggies, it doesn’t matter) quite efficiently. Then we needed everyone working to make products in industry, for wars and consumers and all that. We won’t need these workers any more either soon. And AIs can make crappy entertainment just as well as unqualified entertainers.

    But we do need consumers, ask the industrial people. They need to sell that stuff. So why not pay people to consume? It would not be a gift, it would be their job to buy things and consume them.

    They don’t deserve it? Who cares? We need them to consume, so we should pay them to do that.

  3. Shrews
    Illuminati: I thought is was about Adam Weisrupt and then got disappointed ._.

    Pentagon: If you have ever taken an environmental class in a predominantly democratic college, every movie is like this.

    Wait, what? – is that supposed to be the Alex Jones one again?

    Iguana: RUN LITTLE RUN!!! HE’S GONNA MAKE IT! OH SHIT!!! THEY CAUGHT HIM! BUT HE GOT OUT?! YAAAAYYY!!! That was better than every action adventure movie in the past 20 years 😛

  4. The last sizeable Pawnee, OK
    The last sizeable Pawnee, OK earthquake was felt very emphatically here in Fayetteville at our house, but more interesting was our Border Collie’s response which appeared to unfold about 30 minutes before the quake actually hit. My wife and I had been lolling a’bed in half sleep early that morning when Bonnie suddenly jumped up onto the covers in a manner that made us think a thunderstorm must be off in the distance which she, in her usual way, could hear long before we could and was therefore taking her predictable refuge in our bed burrowed in a close to us as she could get without penetrating our skin. We steeled ourselves for what would typically follow as the storm came nearer – Bonnie would contrive to figure out how to climb down our throats; but in this instance, without an approaching thunderstorm, she just stayed close and tense. In due time, the shockwave from the earthquake arrived and gave us the jolt.

    We have all heard of animals anticipating earthquakes, but for it to be our animal was kind of thrilling.
    Since there had been no thunderstorm, my first thought was that perhaps there had been a gradual vibrational buildup to the quake, and that Bonnie with her heightened canine senses had heard/felt that, but looking at the seismograph of the quake I see that it began quite abruptly with no seismic preamble, so what Bonnie reacted to was something much more obscure – perhaps radio waves or plasma generated microwaves emitted from the fault as its maximum stress-point was being approached, or perhaps something more supranormal..
    Listen to your animal.

  5. Well, hello Clarice
    The Mandela effect about “Clarice” is a bit off – attributing it to “Silence of the Lambs” is incorrect but attributing it to “Hannibal” is not far off:

    “The quote was also found in Hannibal (2001), which had two references:

    The original quote was repeated:
    “Good evening, Clarice. Just like old times.”
    Play clip from Hannibal (2001): Hannibal

    Then, in a phone conversation, the line was stated differently:
    “Is this Clarice? Well, hello Clarice…””

    http://www.filmsite.org/moments03.html

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