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Capitalism and Cows

I hope you enjoy. If you need me, I'll be on PSN as Penguins227. Only add me if you play the same games as me, often. :)

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TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM -- You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION -- You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when the cow drops dead.

FRENCH CORPORATION -- You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.

A GERMAN CORPORATION -- You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.

A BRITISH CORPORATION -- You have two cows. Both are mad.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION -- You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch.

A SWISS CORPORATION -- You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you. You charge others for storing them.

A HINDU CORPORATION -- You have two cows. You worship them.

A CHINESE CORPORATION -- You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the numbers.

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Penguins227

The Lie Detector

John was a salesman's delight when it came to any kind of unusual
gimmicks. His wife Marsha had long ago given up trying to get him to
change. One day John came home with another one of his unusual
purchases. It was a robot that John claimed was actually a lie detector.


It was about 5:30 that afternoon when Tommy, their 11 year old son,
returned home from school. Tommy was over 2 hours late. "Where have you
been? Why are you over 2 hours late getting home?" asked John. "Several
of us went to the library to work on an extra credit project," said
Tommy. The robot walked around the table and slapped Tommy, knocking him
completely out of his chair. "Son," said John, "this robot is a lie
detector, now tell us where you really were after school."


"We went to Bobby's house and watched a movie." said Tommy. "What did
you watch?" asked Marsha. "The Ten Commandments." answered Tommy. The
robot went around to Tommy and once again slapped him, knocking him off
his chair. With his lip quivering, Tommy got up, sat down and said, "I
am sorry I lied. We really watched a tape called Sex Queen."


"I am ashamed of you son," said John. "When I was your age, I never lied
to my parents." The robot walked around to John and delivered a whack
that nearly knocked him out of his chair. Marsha doubled over in
laughter, almost in tears and said, "Boy, did
you ever ask for that one! You can't be too mad with Tommy. After all,
he is your son!"



The robot walked around to Marsha and knocked her out of her chair.

I'm on 'da battlefield brotha!

19:08:49 10-06-2009

Oh, I just wanted a weird title. Just be thankful I didn't go with "ooga-booga!":lol:

Anyways, I recently got the Battlefield 2 Complete collection! I know, sorta pointless getting the complete collection when two out of three expansion packs were given out as free in the patch (Patch 1.5), but I did it anyways. I thought maybe it might be easier to have the installer automatically patch all expansions instead of going through the hard, drawn out process of patching the game, updating punkbuster, and so forth. Quite maddening for some people (check the forums if you don't believe me), but I seem to have *almost* completely avoided all troubles with patching both this game and Battlefield 2142: Complete Collection. Is it just me, or does not everyone read the manual 15,000 times to make sure they go through every step exactly? Eh... it's just me. :)

So, how is Battlefield 2, you might ask. Are the jets terribly overpowering? Do people hack like crazy in the game? Do people just "'nade spam" into infinity on "every single server!?!?"Is one kit specifically greater than all others combined? I have seen many-a-topics on each individual question, and I must say no to every single one of them. Why? I'll explain below.

  • "Are the jets terribly overpowering?"

My answer is no, not really. Let me simply say that there still is quite a large issue of it on some servers. Not many, but some. I have run into it once on the 10 or more times I have played on vehicle servers... and it was only on this one specific map: Gulf of Oman. Every other one seems fine to me, but... that is just my opinion.

  • "Do people hack like crazy on the game?"

Now, this one I do not hear near as much as the other three... but it still comes up every once in a good long while. The reason I put this in is more of a informations sake, not an answer to anyones complaint.

This game is monitored actively by a service known as "Punkbuster." Anyone that has ever played any of the America's Army, Call of Duty, Crysis, or Battlefield series online should know in an instant about Punkbuster. It is a anti-hack service created by evenbalance. It is complained about by a lot people, stating that it "kicks me out for no reason whatsoever", and that is true, to an extent... but that topic is a whole other blog post. This game is monitored by the anti-hack software Punkbuster, and the only people that hack (I've run into two people overall in around 15 hours of gameplay) pay for professional hack services, or get a "public release" that works for a little while (a day or two maximum) until PB gets their hands on it and usually bans everyone that used the hack. So, the answer to the question, simply put, is no.

  • "Do people just "'nade spam" into infinity on every single server!?!?"

Again, my answer to this is different from the community of complainers out there: no. Keywords, though, are "every single." I have run into it once, but only on a certain map (of which complainers love to make their topic): Strike at Karkland. This map is a city, urban combat, perfect for 'nade spam (Grenade spam) map. I have played on it several times, though it isn't the main map I play on(Fav map: Operation Blue Pearl - It is truly EPIC), I have never ran into this problem. It must just be me... ;)

  • "Is one kit specifically greater than all others combined?"

This one I have heard more than grenade spam and hacking combined. People complaining about how the "medic kit is so stupid" (Cr@Z H@x0R$ w1tH n0 L1v3$!! :P). I must say the kits are balanced out pretty good in this game. The engineer kit is pretty boring, and the special-ops kit is like a step down from the assault kit plus C4. Besides those (JUST MY OPINION), it seems like the assault kit (unlocks included) could beat out the medic kit almost any day. I actually really like playing with the other kits, just for the fun of it. Try it out sometime (not playing Medic kit), you might like it!

Oh, Battlefield is soo fun... I would have quite a nice conclusion, but I have been typing this for 30 minutes, and I am sick of typing. See you on the battlefield soldier!

-TheDarkPenguin

P.S. The word "C L A S S" isn't allowed in the posting of this blog (HTML errors), so I replaced that word with the word "kit." If you find any errors, let me know please. Thanks! :D

March Madness 2009

Good Afternoon! :D

So who are all of the gamespot users picking for NCAA March Madness this year? North Carolina? Memphis? Wake Forest? Oklahoma State? Pittsburgh? (I had to throw in the OSU; they are my life favorite)

Check out the Official Gamespot article on it before you do your brackets... (Click for Article)

I personally am choosing Pittsburgh against Louisville for the Championship game. I am not a big ACC fan (especially duke; no reason... or do I?), so I couldn't pick North Carolina. The Big East conference seems to be the best conference this year, so when you pick, remember that these teams really have competition when they play each other, so they should do pretty good against other teams. My championship pick is... *drum roll* Pittsburgh.

You know, it is funny... most all of the gamespot official predictions have all of the 1 seeds in the final four. A good way to tell if you have good lower seeds (6,7,8,etc.) is to look at all of the 5 seeds. Do any of them have a good chance to get to the final four/ championship? I would say no... therefore there is a great chance of the higher seeds going all of the way. Not many upsets this year in comparison to last year...

Comment if you would like with your own opinion, but make them reasonable. Add a reason for your pick, not just "GO DUKE!! LALALALAA!!! DUKE FTW!!" *throws up*:o