Week Of 9 April, 2006
PISSING ON PROGRESS
Take a look at this dispute over water-free urinals in Philadelphia. No water means no work for plumbers - but a savings of well over 1 million gallons of water per year. Which is preferable? If we are to move to a less oil-dependent culture, this "jobs vs. progress" argument will become increasingly prominent.
THINGS TO PONDER
Is penne pasta ribbed for our dining pleasure?
WHAT WEBSTER WON'T TELL YOU
Ideot (singular noun): Someone so ideologically extreme that everything they say makes them look idiotic. See Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh for a demonstration.
UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM
Know thyself, but never in public places.
OUGHTA BE A BUMPER STICKER
I Brake For DUI Checkpoints
DASTARDLY DISCIPLES
Maybe the religious right was right - transvestitism is harmful. Just look at what these cross-dressers did.
SHOUT-OUT TO ALL MY BLOGGAZ!!!
Check out this blogger's site, and be sure to tell 'em Pete sent ya.
THINGS TO PONDER
Is penne pasta ribbed for our dining pleasure?
WHAT WEBSTER WON'T TELL YOU
Ideot (singular noun): Someone so ideologically extreme that everything they say makes them look idiotic. See Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh for a demonstration.
UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM
Know thyself, but never in public places.
OUGHTA BE A BUMPER STICKER
I Brake For DUI Checkpoints
DASTARDLY DISCIPLES
Maybe the religious right was right - transvestitism is harmful. Just look at what these cross-dressers did.
SHOUT-OUT TO ALL MY BLOGGAZ!!!
Check out this blogger's site, and be sure to tell 'em Pete sent ya.
posted by Pete Bogs at
4/09/2006 10:22:00 AM
15 Comments:
Pissing on progress,Use non-potable water to flush toilets and urinals,with or without we will still need plumbers,unless they make it like Mexico were you just piss in a trough
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Hellpig, at 4/09/2006 02:03:00 PM
maybe the plumbers are just greedy then? I'm typically pro-labor, but stopping advances just to give you something to do is wrong... imagine if shipping and train companies had successfully lobbied to prevent air travel... same deal with oil - we're better off without it... sorry, you need to find another job...
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Pete Bogs, at 4/09/2006 03:52:00 PM
hehe - like this weekly idea. We're sure to come around and visit regularly!
progress is a funny thing, but many would sacrifice their children's future for their life-time's comfort.
ideot - i'd so be one =P
You slip in these controversial political inclination on a humourous note because no one can argue with you. I know it. evil j/k
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fatty ~, at 4/09/2006 10:33:00 PM
I'm pro-labor also, but agree with you that stopping advances is just wrong. But then what happens when we start talking about factories, and automating more of the process there?
I'm sure we could sit down and come up with all of the jobs that will always be there, like engineers and teacher's (actually you might be able to automate that too! online learning, artificial teachers, blah blah).
Anyway, what happens when you teach computers AI and how to innovate? What happens to novelists - won't computers just produce better novels? won't computers just be better engineer's?
....1984....... . . . !
anyway, don't mind the babble, i've had too much coffee and too little sleep...
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Zya, at 4/10/2006 01:33:00 AM
fatty - weekly is good, if people remember to come back... hence my little reminders on BogsBlog... and who says people can't argue with me? hellpig does it all the time! ;-)
zya - those are good points... I guess I would make the distinction between what benefits a company (automation) versus what's good for people (conserving water) in this case... there's also somewhat of an intimidation factor with unions... they're intended to protect workers, but often they use stronghand tactics to get what they want...
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Pete Bogs, at 4/10/2006 09:50:00 AM
In an effort to be more labor efficient I am recycling a comment I made to another post. It is the one you suggested we vist and drop a note. It seems to apply here, or not.
"You are spot on. It is all about corporate big wigs getting bigger. There is a part of me that thinks the don't even care about the money. It's all about power. The money is a perk.
To quote the dear little old lady in the film Cold Turkey, "It's all a big bullshit!"
Keep on keepin' on."
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Jack K., at 4/10/2006 12:44:00 PM
If I happen to be ufortunate enough to eat out to a fast food place, I always leave the tray with all the crap on the table. From my experience running both fast and slow food joints I've decided to support the people that work for minimum wage, by not contributing to make their paychecks more miserable and small. And if that is going to increase the cost of that burger or portofino shrimp, then I am willing to pay for it. Automation is good when labor shares the benefits of it . I'm not saying that capitalism is bad, just saying that unemployment is.
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Mr Q, at 4/10/2006 01:44:00 PM
Huh..My dictionary has a reference to Dirty Harry Reed,Babbra Boxer and what's up-Chuck Shumer,Howard (whooha)Dean
Mine must be a Fox News edition.
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Hellpig, at 4/10/2006 02:50:00 PM
hell - you know how there's a King James Bible? yours must be a King George Dictionary!
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Pete Bogs, at 4/10/2006 03:02:00 PM
"Long live the King"
LMAO
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Hellpig, at 4/10/2006 04:11:00 PM
/bark bark bark
comin' to ya UNCLOAKED ha ha ha
you think ribbed is fun eatin'? try the corkscrew spirals!
a job i would love to see automated: mining. When those men died 2 miles underground i had to wonder why machines dont do that. sure it will hurt the first generation who will lose that job opportunity but still....
my favorite ideots: soros, kos, kucinich, BABS!, the great whale of Michigan, jimmay carter, jerry falwell and harry belefonte. growlf!!!
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K9, at 4/10/2006 05:00:00 PM
hell - you forgot the line that usually precedes that: "The king is dead... long live...."
k9 - I second that motion on mining... humans were never meant to go miles under the earth, get crushed, suffocated or develop the black lung... it's too dangerous... I have heard about surface mining equipment, where there's a long, telescoping mining tool, and the operator stays above ground in one of those crane-cab things... if we must mine, let's do it that way...
jimmay? didn't he sing for the Lords of the Underworld?
seriously, I can't see including Carter in that list... he's become quite the humanitarian and diplomat... did I miss something?
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Pete Bogs, at 4/10/2006 05:11:00 PM
/bark bark bark
love me some south park!
Jimmy Carter was one of the most ineffectual dolts we've ever elected and that he was from gerogia is a double whammy for this dog.
he is an ass kisser of every dictator thug you got on this damn ball, and turned his back on starvation all over africa during his administration.
He paid of the North Koreans who were starving their people (JC the great humanitarian) not to develop nukes and missles and then of course they violated that.
He wouldnt help the Shah of iran and then khomeni came in and began the real deal of islamic fundementalism.
you know, im clogging up F13 with this rant maybe i should do my own post. until then FJC!
he may deserve a little tiny star for habitat for humanity, but he did some real damage to the USA,
/grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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K9, at 4/10/2006 06:28:00 PM
k9 - I have just caught up on your two(!) blogs, so be sure to check out my comments...
you forgot the one thing Carter did that pissed me off - reactivating Selective Service, which remains active to this day... I haven't done my draft blog yet, and that's a good things...
well, we shall see what JC is remembered for when the books are written... I don't know...
btw, I too am from GA...
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Pete Bogs, at 4/10/2006 06:50:00 PM
Pete Bogs said...
hell - you forgot the line that usually precedes that: "The king is dead... long live...."
WHO CHENEY? or CONDI
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Hellpig, at 4/14/2006 06:28:00 PM
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