Fail Quotes

[MrBogosity]

Have a look at the empty prattle from the newly elected president of the largest government worker's union on the new government budget:

http://prairies.psac.com/winnipeg/federal-budget-2012

This government will cut seven per cent of the operating budget and more than 19,000 jobs, which will be devastating to Canadians and will seriously harm our economy.

Um, didn't Canada do this about 10 years ago? And wasn't the result the exact opposite of what Benson just said?

[Lord T Hawkeye]

Um, didn't Canada do this about 10 years ago? And wasn't the result the exact opposite of what Benson just said?

Yes, until the politicos went straight back to spending like drunk teenagers.

These people are simply out of control.  They have the self restraint of a 3 year old.  They have build their entire lives around rejecting empericism.  And yet people babble on and on that these are the guys they want running their healthcare.  Pure insanity...

[Lord T Hawkeye]

http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-video-game-complaints-were-just-going-to-have-to-get-over/

2 and 3 are utter bogosity.  I don't see any car companies whining and crying for a cut on used car sales and the damage of piracy is horrifically overstated.

[Ibrahim90]

First off, all of that talk about blocking used games is just unverified rumors for right now. There hasn't been a single reliable source for that information anywhere on the Internet or in press releases. Second, even if it turns out to be true, keep in mind that we bought video games in record numbers long before the used-game industry was even a thing, and we'll do it long after they've been vaporized by the laser monkeys that Sony and Microsoft release into the wild.

Read more: 4 Video Game Complaints We're Just Going to Have to Get Over | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-video-game-complaints-were-just-going-to-have-to-get-over/#ixzz1wVBypdLK

which is why the used copy from my Brother of Napoleon: total war doesn't work on my computer.....

[evensgrey]

Um, didn't Canada do this about 10 years ago? And wasn't the result the exact opposite of what Benson just said?

15-20, I think, but yes.  If anything, the cuts were done less intelligently, too.  There was a pretty uniform reduction, and when you have a bureaucracy uniformly reduce itself, the last thing it does is remove programs, it just reduces services on all of them while keeping as many administrators as possible.  We ended up with programs that weren't capable of doing anything any more because all the people who had done the actual work were laid off, but all their bosses were still there.

I would have liked to put a link to Benson's interview on CBC Radio One about the budget, but I couldn't find one.  It had such gems as "Some of those programs are over a hundred years old!"  When did a program not solving the problem for a very long time make the program valuable?

[Travis Retriever]

15-20, I think, but yes.  If anything, the cuts were done less intelligently, too.  There was a pretty uniform reduction, and when you have a bureaucracy uniformly reduce itself, the last thing it does is remove programs, it just reduces services on all of them while keeping as many administrators as possible.  We ended up with programs that weren't capable of doing anything any more because all the people who had done the actual work were laid off, but all their bosses were still there.

I would have liked to put a link to Benson's interview on CBC Radio One about the budget, but I couldn't find one.  It had such gems as "Some of those programs are over a hundred years old!"  When did a program not solving the problem for a very long time make the program valuable?

That last bit is a fav quote!

[AnCap Dave]

Also adding this, which was said in the conversation above:

Just an update on this.

My older brother is now dodging me because he can't handle the fact that taxation is theft.

He probably took it to heart because he works at a public school and gets paid by stolen money.

[MrBogosity]

Biggest economic fail EVER!

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Wow...I basically just got him to admit that he thinks destroying jobs and slashing wages is a GOOD thing! And he calls Libertarians heartless!

[evensgrey]

Wow...I basically just got him to admit that he thinks destroying jobs and slashing wages is a GOOD thing! And he calls Libertarians heartless!

Maybe that's why he delisted it and  blocked embedding.

[Travis Retriever]

Maybe that's why he delisted it and blocked embedding.

And just when I thought he couldn't be even more of a fucking coward...

[Travis Retriever]

oh, and why would a company maximize surplus? I mean, the guy knows what surplus is, right? or is he really as retarded as I fear? is he seriously implying that "monopolies" produce shit for the lulz?

And it looks like I was being more generous to enthalpay on this subject than he deserved.  It turns out, based on some of his comments and Shane's replies back that he might actually have been referring to that.  Hell, even said to Shane in a comment, "So you admit that firms in a free market under-produce?"
Major unbelievable economics fail.

EDIT:

This was the quote I was thinking of: 

And the FAIL just keeps on coming:

the supply curve is based on costs and that the equilibrium is not the point of intersection in a monopoly...It is above the point where the graphs intersect. It DOES create a surplus.

Yeah, that's why electrical monopolies generate more energy than they can sell...that's why DeBeers puts more diamonds on the market than they can sell...geez! I don't think I've ever seen a statist this deluded before.

Kudos to Shane for posting it here.

To answer your question, Ibrahim90, I guess he really is as fucktarded as you feared.

[evensgrey]

And just when I thought he couldn't be even more of a fucking coward...

Of course he could be, and he still CAN be a bigger coward.  He could actually DELETE Shane's corrections, or delete the video entirely.

[Travis Retriever]

Of course he could be, and he still CAN be a bigger coward.  He could actually DELETE Shane's corrections, or delete the video entirely.

Or even worse, just disable both comments and rating entirely and start filing false DMCAs.  At which point he would be a true creationist.

[Ibrahim90]

talk about missing the point:

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[Travis Retriever]

talk about missing the point:

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And this, boys and girls, is why I don't sub to Coughlan.  I was going to ask Hawkeye why he thinks the dude is whiny...but, good 'ol Coughlan answered the question for me in this video.

As for the video itself, where would I even begin?
If anything, I'd have to remark that by saying that him (Liberal; lives in the UK where gimme gimme gimme is the order of the fucking day) bitching about people being greedy/whiny was pot calling the bleached porcelain stove black.  If he really feels that way about the starving people, why doesn't *HE* do something about it?  Sell your computer and webcam or whatever, etc and donate the money to those people to buy food.  What a hypocrite.