Tough Times For Retailers

[dawman]

I actually want to have a minature DAW that will do all of this, and I would actually take a Ski Shuttle for free to work everynight.
Maybe next year.
In all honesty up here in Tahoe the air and water are so clean, one cannot help but trying to preserve it's beauty.
Braincells point is quite valid though about empty SUV's and Pick Up Trucks. They still have to use chains in the winter to climb the high grades.
The smaller front wheel drive Subaru's are allowed to pass the inspection sites w/o that purchase.
I would so love to carry my rig. If that day comes I shall invest in the new VAX77 w/ a strap, use Solaris 5.0, and keep the hardware version at my crib.
My stands and speakers can remain at the gig and everynight the DAW comes home for tweaks. Even my stand is portable and looks like a rifle when bagged up.
That would be so nice. Naturally to avoid being mugged or robbed my Baretta w/ it's 13 shot clip and one in the chamber will be carried, as by state law I am a contactor and paymaster, and getting a licesnse would be no trouble.
I would then be a true warrior of Scope...

[garyb]

Funny how you see all these pickup trucks even in urban areas and they never seem to be hauling anything in the bed. What a waste of money, fuel and cause of pollution. If this is why you want and think you need low taxes, then I say you should be taxed into oblivion. Your cars are larger than you need. Your McMansion is bigger than you need. This is decadent American ugliness.

hey!
get off people's backs!
have you seen what guys like Gore or even the Queen of England consume? middle class and lower people's luxury is NOTHING, a drop in the hat! whay do you blame the commoners when it's you favorite inbred elite that do MOST of the consuming?

your arguments are the same as the aristocracy's in the 1700s, that this would be a nice place if only the commoners knew their place and if their numbers were reduced to a more managable level. i've got bad news for you braincell, YOU are just a commoner. they're talking about managing YOU too.

[garyb]

btw-carbon taxes are no joke.
taxes on LIFE(humans exhale co2) are truly evil. worse yet, they won't do anything to save the environment. they are for nothing but the enslavement of human beings.

[dawman]

I agree,
I am just having fun with Ya'll.
I usually stay clear of these topics, but I was in the mood to joust a little.
I really do want to lash Kenny G. though.

BTW Braincell,....Ny Brotha' From Anotha' Motha'.
Would you like to bang Sarah Palin if you knew she drove an econmy car?
I'd beat her like a Deathrow Inmate no matter what she drove...

No offense guys I am just having fun.

Have A Great Weekend.

[braincell]

It would help a lot if people would use birth control and have one or no children for a few hundred years. I agree people are bad for the environment. That is why I am strongly in favor of terminating unborn pregnancies, at least in the first trimester.

[garyb]

we know how much you hate people.

don't worry, you're one too.

you're certainly entitled to your opinion, but if you really want to eliminate people, please start with yourself. there's no reason to include others in your hatred.

[braincell]

No offense Xite but you earn $250,000 a year, live in a nice house drive big cars and you complain about your taxes being raised by $300 a year? What is wrong with this picture.

I'm glad you consider me your bro.

When I buy Scope gear, I could care less that my money is going to Germany. I like Germans. I like everyone. This anti-China crap is just a bunch of racism!

As long as there aren't too many we can all exist. People need to think about the future and the environment, not just the sexual heat of the moment and their biological desire to reproduce. There is no consideration for future generations and for plants and animals, just self-gratification. People should think and not act like animals. We could control our destiny if we could get everyone educated. If you live in a a big city which gets maybe 3 snow days a year, you don't need an SUV. That is just idiocy and ignorance. It just illustrates that people don't care and are stupid.

[garyb]

no one is "anti chinese" here.

again, you're blaming the WRONG people for greedy behavior. the folks in charge make the consumption of one making $500,000 a year look like NOTHING. the worst, greediest pig you know isn't nearly as bad as Rockefellor or any of the Queens or Putin or Gore or Bush or so many you don't even know the name of. MOST of the abuse is from the upper, upper class. the lower classes are a pale shadow in comparison. go preach to the REAL pigs.

[braincell]

I think there is enough blame to go around to everyone.

[garyb]

sure, why blame or hate?

just do your best to be a good example is a nice thing to do if one is capable...

the earth is bigger and resources are greater than we have been told. do the math, we really all can fit into the state of Texas with 1100 square feet for everyone, all 6 1/2 billion.

it's time to demand of those who control the world's resources to give a true accounting and to step off their thrones of authority. they've done a scandalously bad job of living up to the trust that is their responsibility. we can all live quite nicely and reasonably cleanly, but the control games need to stop and people need the real information. it's easier to just decide to kill all the commoners. there are machines to do their jobs. just convince them that they're evil and they'll even kill themselves happily....

[dawman]

Again Brotha' Man Braincell,
I gross 4 to 5 grand a week and pay out 60-65 % of that, so I guess in the Liberal playbook I am rich.
I drive little wortless vehicles, not big SUV's although I wish to buy a Ford F150 now that they are selling below cost.
The 300 USD a year you speak of is cool, but trust me, once the Liberals take over they will blame everything on the other side, and begin their fleecing of the middle class.
They can do that because we cannot afford to move our money out of the country or hire fancy lawyers to avoid paying taxes. We are sitting ducks, and right now they are licking thier lips as they are counting the numbers. There are 210,000,000 of us, do the math.
Once again the working men and women will cover the mistakes of Washington.
The rich will stay rich, the poor will be poor, nothing changes.

Except for the sore dick deals we are temporarily seeing at local retailers.

[braincell]

We had a lot of problems at the same time. Deregulation of the banks starting with Ronald Reagan which was continued by the other republicans. Then interest rates were cut so low that investors went crazy with these sub-prime mortgages with no job required and low payments for the first 5 years. Americans, stupid as they are bought these homes they can no longer afford. At the same time we had the futures traders driving up the price of oil; again with no regulation. Credit cards being issued to anyone. No income required! We had two big fat wars costing billions plus a trade imbalance with China. Tax cuts for the rich... WTF??? and corporations??? Medical costs through the roof because of no regulations (sound familiar?). Insurance companies just care about their stock holders. When their investments do poorly, they charge us more but when their investments do well, the price of insurance does not come down! That's not right. My doctor is on my side but the insurance companies don't care. Screw that! We have to nationalize it.

So to the anti-regulation conservatives or whatever you call yourselves now, we tried you way, and that tactic turned out to be a miserable failure. Now we are going to do something different. I am so glad Obama was elected.

[garyb]

wrong.

the Federal Reserve is a private bank. it shouldn't be printing dollars and we shouldn't be paying interest for the service. that's what the National Debt is, the interest due upon the loans from the Fed. the sub-prime mortgages were the engine, but not the cause of the trouble. in fact, this method of bank takeover has been used before...

just repeating the drivel spouted out for an ignorant public by a controlled media is NOT knowing.

i DO agree that banks need to be regulated and not allowed to practice fractional reserve lending, but putting a government that is controlled by those same banks and corporations in charge of regulting the same will only result in what we have now, a regulated public that has no right not to have all of it's data in government bases and every move photographed while the government itself is top secret.

there are NO differences between Democrats and Republicans except in certain examples of rhetoric. in reality, Reagan's policies started with Carter and Ford and Nixon("opened" up China) and Johnson(admitted CIA sponsored coup d'etat) which led to Clinton's work which led to G W B all in an unbroken chain, all members of the CFR and Bohemian Grove, and culminating in the present elected president Obama who will continue in the same fashion(as his adviser Breshinski and chief of staff Emannuel are both part of those past regimes). if you don't think all of these presidencies are part of a continuum then explain how a man like David Gergen could be a policy adviser to both Reagan AND Clinton(and Nixon and Ford).

[garyb]

thanks, stardust, but i personally have no theory of conspiracy at the top. i do have some direct observations showing a long term agenda. the theories from there are your own or from others. a theory is "an educated guess". there is no theory needed to call the sky blue or fire hot, i'm not guessing, except when i tell the future. no one knows the future for certain, even those who hold the highest levels of influence and power over the future.

[braincell]

It's not a conspiracy, it's people taking advantage of a sloppy government. Democrats went along with it but it was instigated by the republicans.

The Reagan administration ushered in the first frontal attack aimed at dismantling the antitrust policies of the United States. The Commodity Futures Modernization Act was passed by a republican controlled Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton in December 2000. That is what led to the volatility in oil prices.

[siriusbliss]

Those who benefit the most are the culprit.
It's ALL conspire-ing to the demise.

There are no Democrats and Republicans. It's all an illusion pulled over your perceptions of reality so that you can't see through the veil of lies.

The past 40 years agendas of both so-called 'parties' has been driven out of policies generated at the CFR and instigated by the global bankers.

It IS a conspiracy - and to call it shy of that is not allowing one to see through the veil.

Greg

[garyb]

then you don't read their own literature.

they DO conspire, even while competing. this is not speculation. it is true. that is how intergenerational goals are met by folks who trace their bloodlines back through the elite of all great civilizations. if you read the works of Huxley, Malthus, Wells and the rest, you can see just how closely the script is being followed. sure, they jockey for position within the order, but they also work to establish the order for whomever makes it to the top. just because YOU would not be so treacherous, doesn't mean that others wouldn't, especially those born and bred for the job. why do you think that the elite(royals and high level bankers and the like, or call them "highborn" if you prefer) are so particular about who marries whom and who reproduces?

braincell, no matter how you try to shove the past down the memory hole, your controlled version of the recent past is flawed. you are demonstrating doublethink to a "t"...

[braincell]

Everything in my last post is a fact. Which part do you disagree with?

I think Obama will be great. He's the first internet president. He's addicted to his Blackberry. Not yet a web 2.0 president but one step closer. I remember Bush said he wouldn't touch a computer because he doesn't want to leave any evidence or something to that affect. Obama is also the first president who probably took acid and he reads! It is so refreshing to have a president with a brain after the last 8 years!

[garyb]

he CAN'T fulfill that which was never real in the first place.

there are plenty who are VERY seriously calling him the Messiah, though. these guys can even get violent at the suggestion that Obama is a crook, the same as if one spit upon a Catholic's rosary. the funny thing is that he's specified so little actual policy and the policy he has specified is just the exact same program, already running. it's just a further step. oh, he plans on bringing change, all right. i believe that! what KIND of change and WHO actually benefits, still remain to be seen.

braincell, first off, whether or not a guy has a blackberry has nothing to do with him being a good public servant.

second, if the man does anything more than administrate, any more than execute CONGRESS's rules, then he is a criminal like the rest of the presidents(at least the last 8 of them) before him, and things will certainly get worse, although if that happens, i'd bet everything that the "media" will declare the new horror wonderful.

so these are your choices, he is an honest public servant and he does his job properly and by those idiots-who-want-a-king's estimation, he will be "weak" and "innefectual", or he can be some degree of crooked, usurping power for the presidency, working for the oligarchy and in history he can be called "the Great". be sure that if it's the latter, suffering will multiply for the vast majority of the population.

[dawman]

When we see this..............it'll be a sign of the end times.