Here’s an awesome idea from a blogger at Big Hollywood: Windfall profits tax on celebrities. Hollywood should be all for that ’cause they want to help people and stuff. I say cut off actor salaries at like $100,000; that’s plenty of money for something that’s really more of a calling that an outright job. It is kinda silly that the people who pretend to do important things earn more money than the people who actually do important things; that’s just stupid capitalism messing up fairness. We should save the large salaries for people who kill evil foreigners.
And software engineers; that’s important too. I don’t know why they don’t do more movies about those people.
And software engineers; that’s important too. I don’t know why they don’t do more movies about those people
Because they’re big-mouthed social retards? No, wait, that can’t be it, because they do movies about lawyers and politicians all the time, too.
I give up, why is it?
Wait, you can’t tax the celebutards unfairly! How are they going to pay for their multi-million dollar houses? They have to have at least two, a summer and winter home. What about the children? What about the money grubbing ex spouses with the 20K a month child support? The children would suffer!!
Frank, you are so unfair some times. Just because you don’t like your job where you do real work (do you?) doesn’t mean that the “special” ones who do pseudo work should be discriminated against. This is AMERICA after all, and “The One” says that WE can make a difference, we can HOPE, we can CHANGE, and THIS can be the greatest country on earth… after we get done apologizing…
That’s crazy talk! You can’t expect celebrities to pay more in taxes and conserve energy. Rather, it’s perfectly acceptable for them to lecture us on greedy corporations and conserving energy while making millions per movie and flying around in private jets. Do as they say, not as they do. It’s plainly obviously to all but dedicated rethuglicans.
And didn’t Obama just poo poo CEO pay the other day? Lets’ get out priorities straight (I know that’s asking a lot, but it’s worth a try)
And software engineers; that’s important too. I don’t know why they don’t do more movies about those people.
Because watching someone sit at a computer and type just doesn’t translate well onto the big screen. The nose-picking doesn’t help.
A software engineer on a caffeine overdose with a case of twinkies and a machine gun might make an interesting movie.
different subject but i tried out one of the carbon calculators and it tells me i should give them 1400$ to offset my emissions this year. 1400$! as a humble soldier in this countrys army i can’t see how anyone can afford to do such a thing. thank god its all a lie.
http://support.nature.org/site/PageServer?pagename=offsets_ccc
…or a multi-tasking software nerd who writes satire and political spoofs while he’s coding. I wouldn’t actually know about that, since all I do is comment on blogs while I’m coding. This can lead to large errors in both activities, so one has to be v e r y careful. For example, errors based on the expression .52 x = Obama are particularly troubling since:
Obama = 0
x = Obama / .52
This is the case of seanmahair’s “From Zero to Zero in no time flat” and leads to the conclusion that there is no hope for 52% of our population.
No, wait a minute… That’s not an error.
Because you’re lazy, smell strange, and wear pajamas.
The software engineers are usually kept well away from users! They hire guys like me (Program Managers) to talk to people because if the business units ever met a software engineer they would eliminate the IT budget and go back to pencils out of sheer terror!
Speaking of Hollyweird… How’s about if the celebs – including well-paid actors, musicians, and politicians – be required not only to give up their excess monies but to live in the same kind of facilities as our sons and daughters in Iraq? After all, if performance is truly a calling, they should be more than willing to sacrifice for it as well as for their country…
Susan, Tim, Barbra, Sean, Michael, et al, all stewing together in an Army he!!-hole near Baghdad would be tops on my movie-watcher list.
We should save the large salaries for people who kill evil foreigners. . . . And software engineers; that’s important too.
Now amigos did you read that right? Did Frankie just say to pay more to those who kill evil foreigners and software engineers?
Look again.
Just a thought: Does the word ENGINEER really apply to software guys?
NEWS ALERT
Just announced that the Mayor of Portland, Oregon, Sam Adams has hired a replacement
for his PR person due to concerns of his PR’s personal health. Mayor Adams
went through a lengthy process to replace his trusted aid. Being that this
position is very important and requires the utmost integrity, ethics, and honesty
Mayor Adams looked far and wide to find such a person. After this long search Mayor Adams was able to find the exact person with the qualities for the position as the Mayors spokes person. Today it was announced that Mayor Adams hired Rod Blagojevich for this critical position. The Mayor stated in a press conference that Rod would bring forth to this administration that “best exemplifies my plans and ideals for the progress in Portland, to move forward in the following years” . Oregonians are very proud of the Mayors ability to move the city in this economy with his ethical, honest, and unfailing march to rid the dishonesty that is rife in the country with corrupt and dishonest elected officials
Many program managers that I’ve known have had their heads ripped-off and shoved up their asses!! And Spyndrilleum sounds like some kind of new scientific element that’s way off the periodic table there. Watch it about engineers, dude, we kick ASS.
@Spyndrilleum
Yeah it does. We do designs, mockups, prototypes, stress tests, etc the same as any civil, mechanical, or electrical engineer.
Man, I hate when that happens…
This would be a great object lesson and, because it would personally affect movie stars’ bank accounts, it might jerk the slack out of some of them. But then again they would have to put down their bongs long enough to let reality intrude.
The downside of this is that any time you reduce the profit on a particular good there will be less of it produced. So if actors only get $100K a year then there will be far fewer Hollywood movies and network TV shows produced and…wait a second…I was talking about a downside…huh, now I’ve kind of lost track of it….
‘Cause they’re boring.
“I don’t know why they don’t do more movies about those people.”
Because they would just end up being abused by the likes of John Travolta and Halle Berry, anyway. Pathetic, filthy hackers.
Have they no shame or dignity?
** Heavy sigh **
Just got through opening a rather nasty email reply from the most vocal moonbat in my family (by marriage, thankfully not to me), about this article from the WSJ that I made the mistake of sending him.
The Wall Street Journal is a crock of sh*t now? Okaaaaaaaay.
After he started with that, I refused to read the further lengthy diatribe and deleted it. I dont do rants about the evil wealthy, especially when the only “evil wealthy” are job-creating middle to upper classes who lean to the political right; who does he think pays for all those entitlement programs after all? Oh right, certainly not the Limousine Liberals in Hollywood and New York.
My fault though; my reason for sending the article was to show them what they voted for is all. You’d think they could defend their position without (1) demonizing success, (2) swearing “loudly,” or (3) in one paragraph or less.
In a deja vu kinda way, his reaction was eerily similar to when, several months ago, I challenged him on AGW as well. Hehehehe.
Apparently, moonbats don’t like it when their ideas are held up to scrutiny or worse, disagreed with.
Sorry everyone for taking up so much space with this; I needed to vent.
Don’t worry, I spend as little time with “Bill” as I have to these days. I’d sure love to be able to point out the errors in his thinking one of these days, but he’ll have to come to that conclusion on his own when he finds out what a failure his messiah’s collected dollars are going.
Jimmy,
Calmate mi amigo! Don’t get your dander up. I am also an Engineer (the real kind). I thought a little poke at the software dudes would get a rise out of someone. Just a little fun at the programmers’ expense.
You know, just like electricals and mechanicals like to raz each other?
Hehe, Spy. Gotcha! Nudge nugde, poke, poke (now who says THAT around here, huh?)
Every time I see your name I think “Unobtainium” which also makes me laugh.
Hey! Wait a minute. I’m not only an engineer, I’m a software dude. Put up your
dukesdander!Unfair. Sometimes hollywood actors work months for their multi-million dollar payouts.
NunyaB,
They get wildly irrational and angry when you get them thinking their fantasy life might have to go eh?
Of course software “engineering” isn’t real engineering. It doesn’t count as real engineering unless it involves calculus.
(Of course with “real” engineering, you mostly just let the computer do all the calculus, and then you leave smarmy comments on blogs while the simulation is running.)
I think it’s high time Hollyweird started paying us to go see the trash they spew out. I haven’t seen a good movie since…….well I don’t know when. If I have to be held hostage to someone’s naked butt or someone’s foul, filthy mouth I should get some recompense.
Most of the time I just rent the movie, that way I’m not out 20 bucks for something I have to walk out of half way through. Watching two overpaid, underdeveloped (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) actors do the horizontal mambo is about as satisfying and entertaining as watching the washing machine. You know eventually it will get done, all that twisting, turning and writhing is exhausting. After 30+ years there’s nothing new to me, and as with everything else touched by the media, has no relation to reality.
So, send me my check and I’ll see about watching a movie or maybe I’ll just skip it and clean the oven. It’s about as entertaining.
zdomain…they already made that movie. It’s called “Stalking Laura” staring Brooke Shields. It’s about a true-life office shooting somewhere in Silicon Valley back in the 80s.
What I find interesting about the Hollyweirdos is that they always talk about how mean and evil the Republicans are because we’re against unions and taxes, but then they go and make the majority of the TV shows in Canada, which has a law preventing film industry workers from unionizing and movies in Australia and New Zealand, where they are given tax breaks for making the movies there.
Right #24, he’s all for helping the poor; in fact just now (I really am done after this guys I swear)I had to ask him how much time and/or money he has given to them, since he cares so much.
** crickets **
Much easier for him to lock himself away in his big house with his big cars (because of his bipolar) and every new electronic gadget on the market, doing NO household work, but instead saves that for my cousin to do after she gets home from a 40+ hour a week job supporting them.
He does at least subsist on a diet of liberal talking points fed through his computers and TV. And he considers himself “informed” on the issues, but his arguments always seem eerily similar to what we mock here at IMAO. Also his hatred of Bush, even though “Bill” “used to be a Republican.”
Again, I’m sorry everyone. ** slinks away **
Nunya B, never slink, always stride, head up, into the sunset. You go girl.
#28
Hang in there NunyaB. In the big picture, “Bill’s” willful ignorance and intellectual dishonesty will not thwart biblical prophesy.
I just got done watching Tron so some times they do make movies about software engineers. Albeit highly romanticized. But hey at least they took a pro-God stance in the movie. That was kind of refreshing having an essentially atheist villain. Well sort of. He forced atheism on programs knowing full well that there were “users”. I suspect a lot of “leading” atheists like Dawkins and the like know that God is around but have been lied to enough to hate Him and every one else.
NunyaB – This is an opportunity for flashing-red-button-poking! When I talk to libtards, it feels like there is a huge flashing red button on their forehead that I must poke. Try it! It is fun, but may piss off your friends, family, girlfriend, acquaintances, coworkers, strangers, elected representatives, etc.
If you are having trouble putting together winning arguments when confronted with stupidity/evil, read Ayn Rand. She exposes liberal lies and the flaws in their logic like no other. Full disclosure – Ayn Rand’s writing is a little dry, but still chock full of awesome. My favorite of her short books is “The Virtue Of Selfishness”, http://www.amazon.com/Virtue-Selfishness-Ayn-Rand/dp/0451163931. It is a great defense of capitalism. Actually, I need to replace my copy. I loaned mine to a coworker years ago and it never came back….(verklempt).
OK, Ayn Rand’s non-fiction books are really really dry textbook-like essays that require a dictionary to decipher. Still, her logic will give you the power to shut Bill up, or at least piss him off. Both work for me! 🙂 Good Luck.
#28. Hheh, yea the war on poverty has been going on for decades and has consumed Trillions and has gotten No Where. Now THAT’s the definition of a Quagmire.
The Libs are always for helping good sounding causes, but it’s not something they’d contribute to. Hell, take any subject, and it is something ‘rich people’ should be taxed back to the stoneage to take care of.
Some Libs that often drop in at lunch were talking about how great Obama’s public service programs were going to be. So I asked which ones they were thinking of getting involved with. They laughed.
Libs are the anti-matter of human society. Rationality and common sense bounce right off them.
And software engineers; that’s important too. I don’t know why they don’t do more movies about those people.
Because after Office Space, there’s no need for another movie about software engineers. We can just watch Office Space again.
#20 – NunyaB,
I’ll see your in-law Wingbat and raise you a saintly, silver-haired mother who subscribes to The Nation and has voted for the Democrat party since 1942.
As her party has been eaten away from within by the radical left more and more each year, her excuses and rationalizations for her continuing loyalty to a group that no longer in any way reflects her values or morals has caused me more than once to bite my tongue and tell myself, “Honor thy father and mother! Honor thy father and mother!”
The O king was the last straw for me.
Our conversations are now strictly limited to the weather, which relatives who I haven’t seen in years has died, is dying, or doesn’t look so good, the weather, and why I don’t call, write or visit more often.
I almost sent her a copy of Michael Savage’s book, “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder” for Christmas, but didn’t because ‘when Momma ain’t happy, ain’t Nobody happy!’ and I have brothers and sisters who live closer to Momma than I do to consider.
Also, she did take good care of Dad in his final illness, (and apart from politics is a lovely, good humored and wise person). “Honor … ! Honor … !”
Sometimes I get the mental image of Mom in her thirties, wearing a red beret and a turtleneck sweater, attending Democratic Socialist Worker’s Party meetings in some smoke filled coffee shop … and serving home-made chocolate chip cookies and milk to some Che Guevera wanna-be and saying, “You should eat more, you’re so thin! And you could use a haircut!”
Then I snap out of it.
(4 of 7, you win. 😉 )