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Dude your view of the world is so totally screwed and warped by one single fluke story :?

Wealth is MOSTLY earned. The vast majority of American Millionaires are self made people who like myself started with nothing more than a loving but lower lower middle class family and a public school education. I associate with thousands and thaousands of people who earned their way up out of low or middle income positions to be successful in this country. Many of them are immigrants who came here with next to nothing but a real desire to succeed.


Oh yeah you have the priveleged aristocracy but those people are the MINORITY, there aren't that many of them (you just see them on the news a lot) get out in the world and work your tail off and if you have any brains you can succeed in the USA.

And if you cannot succeed in the USA....you probably can't succeed anywhere in the world...this is the place to make it happen.
 
Nah, veneration of the "beautiful" is a continuous issue for humanity. Look at a few examples:

1.) John F Kennedy is one of American's "most beloved" presidents. His family is often called "America's royal family". They got their wealth mostly through bootlegging. While in office, JFK committed the first wave of U.S. fighters to the Vietnam war, and issued false reports on their deaths to cover his actions. He almost got us blown off the face of the earth during the Cuban Missile Crises, and was generally a failure by anyone's normal standards up until his untimely death. Unfortunately, nobody held him up to their normal standards as president because they found him charming.
2.) Linden B Johnson had the Vietnam War dumped in his lap. Committed to following JFK's vision, he maintained JFK's war plan to the best of his ability. A kindly old man, he became the face of why "old people can't be trusted" as the truth of JFK's war became known, and took the blame for JFK because people DIDN'T find him charming. LBJ put forth his best effort, yet was the second most villainized president of the last 50 years (the first most villainized president, Richard Nixon, actually earned his infamy).

3.) Bill Clinton's presidency was unexceptional, yet his approval ratings were always high, even as he was being tried for impeding an investigation and perjury, and even as the U.S. economy tanked.

Let's go outside the U.S.

4.) Osama Bin Laden was considered a great man by the majority of local people wherever he traveled because he was blessed by Allah with tall stature and good looks.
 
You speak of a few exceptions and I speak of the vast majority who go about building wealth in the background unnoticed and uncommented on because they seek neither fame or power...they only seek to build a life for themselves and their families.
 
No offense, but everything you said there is highly subjective and therefore invalid as evidence in an argument.

That being said, it is part of the human condition that beautiful people have an easier time of things. Especially in getting things handed to them that others would not receive.
 
A highend cathode-ray tube is way better than any LCD,better than everything, except maybe an DLP.
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DLP sucks compared to LCD. With DLP projectors you ca see this awful shimmer on everything that moves.
 
I dont know much about DLP but i do have a nice bit of exp with projection TV's. Serioulsy the picture in those always seems to be horrible. So i dont doubt a projection would have wierd graphical issues.
 
on my moms dlp projector the pic is ok on regular dtv but the hd channels
are almost (but not quite) as good as my hd tube tv.

its the same on my tv non hd channels suck compared to hd channnels.

when i first got my hdtv i would watch knitting or just about anything in hd
as it is just an awsome picture.

it has the upconversion stuff but that cant compare with a true hd signal.

oblivion looks good on my tv at 1920x1080, it looks pretty good
on my moms projector to. my tv plays games at 720p and or 1080i.
my moms dlp projector plays them in 480p.
 
No offense, but everything you said there is highly subjective and therefore invalid as evidence in an argument.

That being said, it is part of the human condition that beautiful people have an easier time of things. Especially in getting things handed to them that others would not receive.
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You should attend one of our small business association meetings...its hardly subjective when I can point to person after person who managed without being "Beautiful" to obtain a more than comfortable net worth. *shrug* If you have the attitude "I can't do it because I wasnt born to it or Im not beautiful" Then you will never succeed. You only make great gains with some risk and self sacrifice. Ahh well Thats my cheery thought for the week.....
 
No offense, but everything you said there is highly subjective and therefore invalid as evidence in an argument.

That being said, it is part of the human condition that beautiful people have an easier time of things. Especially in getting things handed to them that others would not receive.
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You should attend one of our small business association meetings...its hardly subjective when I can point to person after person who managed without being "Beautiful" to obtain a more than comfortable net worth. *shrug* If you have the attitude "I can't do it because I wasnt born to it or Im not beautiful" Then you will never succeed. You only make great gains with some risk and self sacrifice. Ahh well Thats my cheery thought for the week.....

You misunderstand me. I am not saying that everyone else can't succeed, or such nonsense as that. I am just saying that in general (and there have been more than a few sociological studies that prove this), "beautiful" people have an easier time getting what they want. I am neither complaining nor bitter about this, thats just how things are. It stems from the primitive mating instincts that still dwell inside us. I would rather work for my achievements anyway.

That being said, I have been to more that a few Small Business and networking meetings filled with successful people of all types, and even helped build a successful business or two, along with being reasonably success in my young professional life without being what one would consider "beautiful". So there is no need to lecture my on the merits of hard work and sacrifice, been there, done that, happy with I've got out of it so far.

FYI, I was stating that Crash's opinions on the people he mentioned in his examples were subjective, not whether or not people's success is based on their looks.
 
My examples were specifically of people who were simply handed over power based on their looks. Except for the LBJ case, which proved the public's resentment for ugly people in that nearly everyone blames LBJ for JFK's "sins".

Ugly people can be successful too, they just have to try much harder or be extremely brilliant, perceptive, and manipulative.
 
And yet, I can provide counter arguments to each example you said to prove almost the exact opposite:

1) JFK did NOT commit the first forces in Vietnam, Both Truman and Eisenhower had sent troops prior to that, and Large Scale troop involvement didn't begin until after he was killed. In fact, there were only about 16,000 troops there when he was killed. He also did a lot of good in the civil rights arena, including establishing the peace corps.
2)Johnson did have Vietnam dumped in his lap, same as Kennedy. However, instead of using the Green Berets and other such groups as advisors, he ramped up the total Number of US troops to over 550,000, and his mis/micro management is a large part of the debacle that was US military involvement at the time.
3)Clinton is extremely intelligent, and while mired in scandal (he was a bit on the crooked side), his approval ratings remained high primarily because people were making more money compared to their taxes/outlays than ever before and he succeeded in balancing the budget to the point of having a surplus.
4) A lot of Bin Ladens success can be attributed to the training, contacts, and funding given to him by the CIA when he was fighting the Russians in Afghanistan.

As I said, I can provide equally subjective counter arguments.

You are right in your analyses of the aforementioned people charm, however, people don't just follow charm blindly. As an example:

George W. Bush is considered a fairly charming and disarming man. However, his and his party's popularity have suffered (as evidenced by the recent elections) because he turned the budget surplus he inherited into a large deficit, got us mired in an unpopular war in Iraq, and has failed to live up to his promises on the economy and health care.

As I said, subjective examples, not objective.

On the other hand, as per my post above, I do not disagree that "beautiful" people have it easier than "ugly" ones.
 
1.) Prior to Kennedy, the advisors sent to Vietnam were military trainers. Kennedy sent fighters under the label of "advisors" and labeled the battle losses as "training accidents".
2.) Johnson tried to follow Kennedy's intent, but escillating losses among so-called "trainers" caused him to seek a quick and decisive end to battle: Overwhelm the enemy. It didn't work, but that's no reason to villainize the man.
3.) Clinton was STILL IN OFFICE when our CURRENT economical woes came into play. He did absolutely nothing to help the economy, and the budget balance only came into play because of the good economy of the early 90's. People gave Clinton credit for YOUR hard work, because it was the PC boom that drove the economy from 1992-1996, followed by the Internet boom from 1996 to late 1999. The bubble actually burst in 1999, followed by a brief rally that artificially propped up stock prices until spring of 2000 when it crashed again. The economy never completely recovered, but people kept praising Clinton and faking a good economy through false reports until Bush took office.

Clinton's "reputation" was protected because people liked him.

4.) Bin Laden's paramilitary success was based on training, funding, and respect of his troops. Local populations simply found him to be charming in a similar manner to how we propped up Clinton.

The problem here is that I'm reporting unpopular facts that go against commonly held beliefs.

Feel free to rip on Bush, but not in support of Clinton. Just as Clinton was not responsible for the rize and fall of the PC/Internet industry that created and destroyed the mid 1990's boom, Bush never found a solution to the poor economy Clinton handed him.
 
See Hitler.
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I think ugliness is a prerequisite for tyrants. Hitler,Manuel Noriaga,Fidel Castro, Idi Amin, Saddam Hussien, etc.etc. All Fugly...i'd say. :wink:

I was thinking about writing on the ugly people who managed to manipulate large populations. It turns out that people don't look up to short people, nor admire the ugly, but short ugly people can still prey upon the general population's other prejudices and national pride.
 
You miss my point, I don't necessarily believe anything I just said. I was merely demonstrating an opposing subjective argument.

My point is that whether you believe your unpopular facts are true (I agree with some, not with others, but thats not for this forum), they are subjective, based on your perception. I guarantee there are others out there that believe they have equally unpopular and true facts.
 
and has failed to live up to his promises on the economy and health care.
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At the risk of turning this into a idiotic politics argument im going to ask a couple questions

#1. what promises has he lived up to let alone those and
#2. i swear he broke all them almost in hte first couple months.

Now onto the argument of good looks and such.

Bush for example didnt have popularity the first time he was elected didnt have it through his first 4 years. He still doesnt have it. He speaks like a trained monkey.

Now i would be interested to see peoples views on how a man that hasnt kept one promise, that has totaly destroyed the country handed to him, And has been unpopuler since his election can still be elected two times on good looks 😀

Seriously things like this could have marrit since it would be the only thing that could possibly explain his terms. (that and his family pretty much buying it for him)
 
Yes, but there are certain facts that can only be disputed with opinions, which I like to point out anyway since people seem blind:

1.) Kennedy sent the first wave of actual fighters to Vietnam.
2.) The economy tanked in 2000 following a noticeable crash in 1999 and a brief recovery. Bush took office in 2001.

I'm accutely familiar with #2 as I was looking for an internship at the time.
 
I don't think I am touching that one... I try to avoid talking politcs on these forums. :twisted:
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You sir are a vary smart man. And i played with fire even making that post 😀

After looking at the first part of your sig however i hope you dont find another post i made on here or you might twitch :twisted:
 
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