"This is for my fellow Millennial. The one who gets his or her rocks off to visions of a glorious Boomer-hegemonic extinction, like those old claymation movies of dinosaurs getting nuked by meteor-fire. [...] For maybe the first time in modern history, we now have a generation that actually has warmer feelings about socialism than it does capitalism: 49% to 46%. And a few days later, amid a multi-billion dollar war on public sector workers, another poll was released demonstrating that a whopping 69% of Millennials think teachers are underpaid (compared to 56% for Americans of all ages). Boomer technocrats long ago conceded that Millennials skew to the left on social and cultural issues, but have tried to muddy the waters when it comes to the economy–hence the “libertarian” con. But now, the verdict is in and it’s undeniable. Journalist Doug Henwood thinks “this may be the most left-thinking younger generation in modern history.”"
- Goran Zec
from Bookmarklet
"The actual cost of universal free higher education is negligible—estimated somewhere between $15 and $30 billion. That’s a relatively tiny pinprick from the federal budget that could transform higher education overnight into a truly public good. And yet the US government is already spending roughly that very amount on higher education. But they’re not using it to pay our tuition....
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- Goran Zec
"A submerged state, according to political scientist Suzanne Mettler, is what you get when a government refuses to distribute funds and services directly to individuals and families, and instead uses tax breaks or payments to private companies all in order to hide the hand of government and exaggerate the role of the market."
- Goran Zec
"The Boomers grew up under a capitalism that had to be hammered and shaped into respectability over a thirty year period. But for us, we’re left staring at the monstrosity in its natural state. With a quarter-century’s worth of quasi social-democratic reforms either neutralized or withered away, and with no more credit to hose us down, we’re able to see the beast for what it truly is....
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- Goran Zec
Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - http://www.theonion.com/article...
"Amidst mounting geopolitical tensions, Iranian officials said Wednesday they were increasingly concerned about the United States of America's uranium-enrichment program, fearing the Western nation may soon be capable of producing its 8,500th nuclear weapon. "Our intelligence estimates indicate that, if it is allowed to progress with its aggressive nuclear program, the United States may soon possess its 8,500th atomic weapon capable of reaching Iran," said Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi, adding that Americans have the fuel, the facilities, and "everything they need" to manufacture even more weapons-grade fissile material. "Obviously, the prospect of this happening is very distressing to Iran and all countries like Iran. After all, the United States is a volatile nation that's proven it needs little provocation to attack anyone anywhere in the world whom it perceives to be a threat." Iranian intelligence experts also warned of the very real, and very frightening, possibility of the U.S. providing weapons and resources to a rogue third-party state such as Israel."
- Goran Zec
from Bookmarklet
"title, id, file size, seeds, leechers and magnet links of 1,643,194 torrents [...] The Pirate Bay in a 90 megabytes file, 164 megabytes unzipped."
- Goran Zec
from Bookmarklet
"Here’s a copy of 17 million torrents from Bitsnoop.com, pretty much the same format but nicely categorized. It’s only 535 MB."
- Goran Zec
What’s perhaps even more striking is that the greatest arch rival of a billion dollar entertainment industry is nothing more than 164 megabytes of text. Something to think about."
- kstefancic
"I have learned well the secret power that writers of indie games can use to actually make a living: We can find a small niche long-abandoned by the big companies, settle into it, and thrive. I write low-budget, hardcore, turn-based role-playing games. [...] For 15 years (before my games appeared on iTunes and Steam and my life completely changed), I had a simple plan."
- Goran Zec
from Bookmarklet
"I don't really make a living selling games. I sell an ethical life. How could I make a living selling games? Anyone who wants to pay me for my games doesn't have to. It's not like buying a chair, where they'll chase you down and taser you if you grab it and run out of the store. Nobody who wants my game on Windows or Mac has to pay for it to get it. Frankly, most of them don't. So why do people pay for it? Because they understand a fundamental fact: For these games to exist, someone has to pay."
- Goran Zec
Umjereno zabrinjavajuće, danas sam kočio zaleđenim prstima (možda sam stisnuo prejako) i mozak mi je odlučio ubiti vid. Ravnoteža je i dalje ostala ok, samo me uhvatila slabost / mučnina i privremeno sam ostao slijep na cesti.
Uz to, lanac je hrđav, pogon i lijeva pedala krckaju, prednja zračnica pušta 1 bar dnevno, vanjska guma je puknuta, a naba je puna soli i vlage.
- Goran Zec
Privremeno sam oslijepio... Uz to, lanac je hrđav, pogon i lijeva pedala krckaju, prednja zračnica pušta 1 bar dnevno, vanjska guma je puknuta, a naba je puna soli i vlage... Uz to u Imotskoj krajini zabilježene su rekordno niske temperatura... Uz to se ni nakon još jednog kruga pregovora o grčkom dugu ne nazire kraj dužničke krize.
- miroslav
Nego, koliko je trajao taj trenutak sljepila?
- Kristina Lovric
Da ne koristiš kakve dealextreme džaba loše naočale? Ja sam imao prije koju godina povremene mučnine sa čudnim manifestacijama na oči (ne baš sljepoća ali peckanje, suzenje). Nakon što sam se riješio cvika sa Tiskovog kioska za 40 kuna, kroz dan dva me prošlo sve.
- Vedran
Da nisi u potpunosti odustao od konzumacije hrane možda?
- Cubitus
Kolko je trajalo je teško procijeniti, rekao bih pet sekundi? Hranu danas baš konzumirao prije toga, možda bi odustanak pomogao. Doktoru oću, al ako se jednom ponovi, ne bih baš na prvi simptom i još u uvjetima ekstremne hladnoće.
- Goran Zec
Ja bih se kladila da se radi o krvnom pritisku i neprokrvljenosti perifernih krvnih sudova. Oće to na hladnoći, pogotovo ako si jeo pre toga. ps. sećaš se Nine iz BG, kad ste bili prošle godine. Ona je u januaru u bolnicu dospela jer joj je neki virus napao očni živac i mislim da joj se vid nakon terapije nije u potpunosti vratio, no, napreduje. Oćoravila na jedno oko.
- EjDD
Untisumpora! Slazem se s Draganom, isto bi rekao da je do krvnog tlaka u danom momentu u kombinaciji sa hladnocom... Krene sa whiteoutom, a ako ode zesce krene blackout sa osjecajem slabosti mucnine etc... Ako se ponovi, pici doktoru.
- ILLA
"Trent Arsenault has never had sex, but he’s the father of fifteen children—and counting. The more he antagonizes the FDA, and unnerves television audiences across America, the more his in-box is flooded with requests for his sperm."
- Goran Zec
from Bookmarklet
"In most ways, he had always lived clean. He never smoked or did drugs. Except for a few sips of wine and one Sex on the Beach (bought by co-workers on his 21st birthday), he had never tasted alcohol. But he had grown up on the hacker diet of Pringles, Velveeta, and Mountain Dew. He spent three years researching food, experimenting first with smoothies made of Pop-Tarts and chocolate syrup and landing, ultimately, on a healthier recipe “optimized for fertility and aesthetics."
- EjDD
"What we are seeing in Syria is a deliberate and calculated campaign to bring down the Assad government so as to replace it with a regime “more compatible” with US interests in the region. [...] “Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey will not be standing aside: they will send military instructors, advisers and arms to Syria without any UN Security Council resolutions,” he was quoted as saying. “The Muslim Brotherhood movement may come to power in Syria instead of Assad. “All this may result in a bloody massacre of the Alawites and a confrontation between the Sunnis and Shiites in the Middle East,” he said."
- Goran Zec
from Bookmarklet
"When Nietzsche said "God is dead" he meant that God is not necessary for our morality anymore. When he says we killed God, he means that our science, skepticism, education, have pushed us past the point where believing in miracles is possible; but as a consequence of this loss we are lost, have no goals, no aspirations, no values. God was made up, but he gave us a reason to progress. The resulting nihilism requires us to either despair, return back to medieval religion, or look deeper within us and find a new source of human values. Yet... none of those things happened. The post-modern twist is that we didn't kill God after all: we enslaved him. Instead of completely abandoning God or taking a leap of faith back to the "mystery" of God; instead of those opposite choices, God has been kept around as a manservant to the Id. We accept a "morality" exists but secretly retain the right of exception: "yes, but in this case..." Atheists do this just as much but pretend they also don't...
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- Goran Zec
from Bookmarklet
dobar mi je taj. prvi put sam ga u tebe vidia ali je cesto na mjestu.
- vedran
"Tens of thousands of Muscovites rallied against Vladimir Putin’s regime on Saturday, defying expectations that the protest movement was losing steam or would be kept indoors by temperatures of minus 20C. Organisers said more than 160,000 attended the rally, on Bolotnaya square 800m from the Kremlin, though the consensus was 60,000 – 100,000."
- Goran Zec
from Bookmarklet
"Needless to say, this is the American copyright industry’s dream. The concept is completely foreign. The only thing helping somewhat against file sharing would be to kill the entire net, and this would be such an action. The copyright industry’s lobby association Netopia is working intensely to push for exactly this, trying to spin it as “intermediary responsibility”."
- Goran Zec
from Bookmarklet
Fwd: Shostakovich - The First Train: Tender Girl Song
Composer: Dmitri Shostkaovich (1906-1975)
Performers:
Victoria Evtodieva (soprano)
Liudmila Shkirtil (mezzo-soprano)
Yury Serov (piano)
Composed in 1956 - http://immoraltales.tumblr.com/post... (via http://friendfeed.com/mertulu...)
Aha sad sam tek shvatio o čemu čašpri - to je ipak niklo ovo čudovište od noćnog kluba, vlasnici su neka zlatna klatež - jedan je rudlavi štakor, a drugi prištavi bul terijer. Posjetitelji su svi društveni paraziti koji su se ikad objavili u domaćim trač rubrikama. Ne bih kročio u tu rupčagu ni da postavim bombu.
- miroslav
"Noćni lub 'H2O' zatvorio je vrata samo dva mjeseca nakon što ga je na mjestu bivšeg 'Krivog puta' svečano otvorio Zdravko Mamić, ujedno i kum kluba. 'H2O' je u vlasništvu Matea Šarića, sina Marijana Šarića, vlasnika Europatradea, i Ivana Lončara, mladog zagrebačkog poduzetnika. Problemi s Državnim inspektoratom i Prirodoslovno-matematičkim fakultetom bili su previše za ovaj klub, koji je trebao postati novo 'in mjesto' zagrebačke elite" http://www.jutarnji.hr/zatvore...
- double--krtica
šteta, dobro je kretene imati grupirane na jednom mjestu.
- Jakov
Ima u Zagrebu dovoljno mrijestilišta za kretene i bez ovog konkretnog đubrišta. Razjebali su legendarno mjesto, utukli čudo love, pokušali prisvojit komad botaničkog vrta, pa onda propali nakon dva mjeseca, zato pusti da se sad malo naslađujemo.
- miroslav
ček, kako Night Club može da radi samo do ponoći? Piše lepo od 7-24h?
- koalica
@koalica - nekako mi se čini da odgovor na to pitanje glasi: "Problemi s Državnim inspektoratom i Prirodoslovno-matematičkim fakultetom bili su previše za ovaj klub."
- miroslav