Wish Jim was still here...

[amigadave]

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."

-Alexander Tyler

The abomination in the United States grows as we come closer to the end of democracy. The tipping point has been passed as the ignorant and immoral have become the majority. As money is taken away from the successful and given to the failures, so is freedom with the result that everyone will be equally poor and there will be no one to invest in anything better. I always thought that Amiga people were a little smarter than the rest. Apparently, not always.

The scary thing about this post is that it is true and happening as I type this, except the money is not being given to the failures.  The pennies that are given to the poorest, the out of work & the lazy people that don't want to work are nothing compared to the amount being raped from average wage earners and put in corporate officers pockets and pension funds, as well as bribes (both legal and illegal) of one kind or another, salaries and pensions for politicians who keep the whole system running in the same direction (straight to hell) and prevent any real reform from happening and go on with their smoke and mirrors trying to prevent the general public from seeing what is really going on for as long as they can, just so they can try to get their share of the Public Treasure Pie.

The government is run by the corporations and the greedy CEO's are bleeding the country's middle class and sending all the jobs overseas with the result of only the very rich and the poor remaining and revolution the only alternative and it won't be pretty this time.

[Franko]

for gawds sake !!!

Dear Jim

I know that I started out this thread by asking you to perform the miracle of all miracles by getting the Amiga back on top again. :lol:

But... Their seems to be a more urgent thing for you to fix regarding our fellow Amigans across the pond.

It would seem from the last few posts that a great depression has descended upon them in the good old U S of A. They seem downright miserable and are rambling on incoherently about doom & gloom and politics. I think they must have had their sense of humor stolen or most likely bought from them by the nasty Mr Graits at MickeySoft.

I know their attention span isn't that great over there (TV ads every 5 minutes during progs) but in the space of just a few posts they have totally lost the thread and gone off on an whole other tangent about things that the rest of the world doesn't have a clue about !!! :roflmao:

So please, please, pretty please can you fix it for our terminally bewildered friends over there, to have an urgent sense of humor transplant, I would be only too glad to donate some of mine. :biglaugh:

Thank you Jim (although even this is a much taller order, than resurrecting the Amiga..) :roflmao:

From Franko, aged 102 now ( and starting to feel depressed ) :lol:

PS: DONT FORGET ABOUT THE MIGGY

[Darrin]

for gawds sake !!!

Dear Jim

I know that I started out this thread by asking you to perform the miracle of all miracles by getting the Amiga back on top again. :lol:

But... Their seems to be a more urgent thing for you to fix regarding our fellow Amigans across the pond.

It would seem from the last few posts that a great depression has descended upon them in the good old U S of A. They seem downright miserable and are rambling on incoherently about doom & gloom and politics. I think they must have had their sense of humor stolen or most likely bought from them by the nasty Mr Graits at MickeySoft.

I know their attention span isn't that great over there (TV ads every 5 minutes during progs) but in the space of just a few posts they have totally lost the thread and gone off on an whole other tangent about things that the rest of the world doesn't have a clue about !!! :roflmao:

So please, please, pretty please can you fix it for our terminally bewildered friends over there, to have an urgent sense of humor transplant, I would be only too glad to donate some of mine. :biglaugh:

Thank you Jim (although even this is a much taller order, than resurrecting the Amiga..) :roflmao:

From Franko, aged 102 now ( and starting to feel depressed ) :lol:

PS: DONT FORGET ABOUT THE MIGGY

Uhhh-ahhhh-uhhhh-ahhhh-uhhhh-ahhhh

Now then boys and girls, what do you think of that letter?

Dear Frankie,

Now then, now then,

Try not to worry too much, because if you had a Kenyan for a Prime Minister then you'd be a bit depressed too, wouldn't he Mr Cigar? Uhhh-ahhhh-uhhhh-ahhhh-uhhhh-ahhhh.

Yes indeedy.

Now then, now then,

Uhhh-ahhhh-uhhhh-ahhhh-uhhhh-ahhhh!

etc, etc

[matthey]

The scary thing about this post is that it is true and happening as I type this, except the money is not being given to the failures.

The money IS being given to the failures!

 The politicians that got it wrong are given more power and money. Look at Franks and Dodd. They were a HUGE part of pushing for more taxpayer money for people that could not afford a house and they are the single most responsible people for the economic crisis we went through. Were they removed from power? No! The republicans were removed from power giving them more power as the majority. They went on to pen the recent financial bill which does nothing about taxpayer subsidized sub prime mortgages or Fannie, Freddie, FHA or themselves. On the other hands, this new 2300 pages of regulations will costs banks and the individuals using them when these banks are going bankrupt (over 100 already this year) destroying jobs.

 The bailout money went to the failed businesses of this country rather than bankruptcy. In bankruptcy, the successful businesses get a bargain when the failed businesses are sold off. In a bailout, the successful businesses (and individuals) pay for failed businesses. We also payed to bailout people that could not afford to buy a home after we payed to put them in a home they could not afford. The result is that most of them have or will loose there home anyway.

The government is run by the corporations and the greedy CEO's are bleeding the country's middle class and sending all the jobs overseas with the result of only the very rich and the poor remaining and revolution the only alternative and it won't be pretty this time.

I don't see it quite that way. I think the businesses are the one entity that is working in this country and they are not as immoral as they may appear on the surface. Yes, there are problems. The high executive pays has no defense and there are a few greedy businesses that go for risky short term profits however the skirting of regulations (and lobbying) and sending of jobs overseas is just survival. The board members have an obligation to protect and grow the investments of the stockholders. When the government creates an uncompetitive environment where the only options are to cannibalize the company then they are obliged to do what they have to. Cannibalizing the company is not pretty either as we have seen the first to go being workers. I would rather see executive pay cuts first but we have seen a few cases of that too. It's not fair that these businesses have to compete in the highest corporate tax environment in the industrialized world (Japan is higher compared to some states, not mine) with high cost of regulations, taxes and government caused inflation (yep, we have stag-flation) which eats away at profitability. If the costs of doing business keep going up like they have in this now anti-business country, we will see more than jobs going overseas. We will see whole businesses leave and less new ones created here. This is already happening. This will make the poor poorer and a very few rich richer (that invest overseas and can stay ahead of ever increasing taxes on the rich) but this will take a while. The bigger problems than businesses are the other entities, the politicians and the individuals. I felt I needed to speak out here because your attitude toward business is much the same as our president. The more we punish business though, the more we punish ourselves.

@Franko
I guess you don't own any BP stock or you would be feeling punished by our abomination and probably joining in too. I didn't think the economy was much better over there either. I guess the government can take all our money but not your sense of humor .

[Tension]

meh

[Franko]

@franko
i guess you don't own any bp stock or you would be feeling punished by our abomination and probably joining in too. I didn't think the economy was much better over there either. I guess the government can take all our money but not your sense of humor .

serious mode enabled :rant:

Matthey, I have switched off my sense of humor for a few seconds to reply to you (not an easy thing for me to do ). While I agree with a lot you are saying here, this is not the place to debate it. I started this thread as a bit of fun and to see if anyone else out their would like to join in and express their wishes,hopes and dreams and passion regarding the AMIGA, and all to be taken with a rather large pinch of salt.

Believe it or not, but I do follow what goes on in this world especially on your side of the pond. But Matthey, dear dear Matthey, please can we leave this thread as it was intended to be, just a bit of fun and get back to the most serious thing in life, which is of course Having A Laugth...

If you wish to start a new thread in the Politics section, then I shall be more than happy to join you there, to debate, chat and exchange points of view on all that is wrong with this world. :swords:

As Willaim Wallace's (A.K.A Braveheart) great, great, great grandson once said...

'They HAVE taken away our country, but they'll never take our sense of humor' :lol:

5... 4... 3... 2... 1...

SERIOUS MODE DISABLED
RETURNING TO HAPPY MODE... :banana:

Cheers :drink:  

Franko

[kolla]

I actually thought this thread would be about Jim Collas

[JimS]

Sorry, not my thing anymore. Try S. Claus, General Delivery, North Pole. ;-)

[Franko]

Sorry, not my thing anymore. Try S. Claus, General Delivery, North Pole. ;-)

Boo, Hiss, Traitor... :biglaugh:

[bbond007]

and just so that everybody knows what we're talking about (and that we haven't gone mad), here's ex-DJ Sir Jimmy Saville:


and here he is "fixing it" for some kid to meet K9:


This was of course back in the days when it was perfectly OK for childrens' TV presenters to be seen smoking huge cigars in front of families at 5pm on a Saturday afternoon on BBC TV while also sounding completely drunk.

I don't know about that character there!

If I ever have a hot-tub malfunction involving "Chernobyl-ly" energy drink and get sent back into the mid 80's, I'll be sure to fix Commodore.

[Franko]

I don't know about that character there!

If I ever have a hot-tub malfunction involving "Chernobyl-ly" energy drink and get sent back into the mid 80's, I'll be sure to fix Commodore.

Strange... :huh:

thats just what happened to me... :confused:

But it was the 1880's that I've got stuck in and the computers here are made of wood and run on steam. Although there's a young Mr A. Bell here who has a crazy idea about something called a telyfone (i think thats what he said) and he reckons when he builds it we will all be able to communicate using our computers over pieces of copper wire with each other. (I thing he's a little bit crazy myself ! :crazy: ).

Anyway who need's it, the pieces of string we use here do the same job... :lol:

[Franko]

Dear Jim'll Fix It

You may recall that I wrote to you some time ago asking you to perform a little bit of a miracle, THE RESURRECTION OF THE AMIGA.

Well it looks like you needn't bother, cos after the inane ramblings of our cousins over the pond it looks like that part of the world has given up, on not just the Amiga but life in general.

The rest of the Amiga community (if you can call it that anymore!) doesn't seem to care less , no hopes, dreams or ambitions, no matter how far fetched they might be. :cry:

I guess that they have all been brainwashed and conned into buying PeeCees (puke) and Crapple Macs (boak) and seem to be sadly under the delusion that running an Amiga emulator makes them a true part of the Amiga community. :lol:

The only hope left is, if you could somehow manage to make all these sad, sad brainwashed fools,   :rolleyes: see the light and chuck their Crapple Macs and PeeCees in the bucket where they belong. :biglaugh: Then maybe, just maybe, they could dig out their real Amigas or try and buy some old ones and then we could all join together and prove that the Amiga is really still alive  and that their is still a market out there for the manufacturers to start producing again for our beloved Amiga.

By the way there are Fairy's and Pixies at the bottom of my garden... :roflmao:

Please Jim can you Fix THEM for me. :biglaugh:

Franko aged 45 and a bit (but feeling much older and more disillusioned by the minute !!!)

[Franko]

Hmm... Just had a thought :idea:

If Jim can't help us, what about that nice, charming, quiet Irish fellow, Bob...

That's It. Good old Mr Geldof, I mean the man who organized the biggest ever charity even in history, Live Aid, if anyone can help the Amiga then it surely it must be him.

If he could organize a world wide event for the Amiga, he could call it AMIGA AID, but wait, if it involves our friend across the pond in the good old U S of A, he'd be better calling it BEYOND ALL HOPE AID... :roflmao:

Better start writing,

Dear Bob...

[Darrin]

Anyone who names their kid "Fifi Trixibell" should not be allowed anywhere near the Amiga.  

[persia]

Given the state of the community I'd say your warning was way too late...

Anyone who names their kid "Fifi Trixibell" should not be allowed anywhere near the Amiga.  

[persia]