Neanderpundit

Is as good or better a book than movie, and its an insanely good movie.

Edited to add, now that I’m not posting from the car:

The contrast between Ed Tom Bell, a decent husband and sherrif,doing his best to simply do his job, and Anton Chigurh, a singleminded and efficient killer, is so intense that you nearly get whiplash switching between one and another, as the scenes change.

Toss in Moss, a tougher than your average bear househusband and welder, who decides to do, as he says, “Somethin dumbern’ hell”. Decides that he can outfox the people whose money he wanders off with, and almost pulls it off. And all the other redshirts in the movie, victims of drug dealers or Chigurh or their own stupid, are even better in the book.

I’m back to reading about a book a day, to keep free of the rest of the BS I got going on. It’s nice to stumble on one this well done. If you’ve seen the movie, the viewing experience will be enhanced by reading the book.

you lose any information you might have been working on, if you don’t save it.

Likewise, in any large, complex system, you can’t just pull the plug- provision has to be made for shutting things down in sequence, or there’s hell to pay. Some systems even have separate processors and systems that constantly update the memory- a Fanuc robot, for instance, if disconnected from power, will power up exactly where it left off and keep doing what it was doing as if it had never been interrupted.

Not all systems are like this, and the more complex they become the more disastrous to shut them down. In “2001 a Space oddysey” Dave has to disconnect the higher (and most dangerous!) functions of Hal without disrupting life support, navigation, etc.

rests no more squarely than on the working people of the country.

The very wealthy tend not to work and be taxed in the same way the rest of us are, so they’re sort of out of the equation.

The people who work foot the bill. Sure, there are some who pay more, and some who pay almost nothing at all, but the middle and upper middle class pay for- well, pretty much everything.

To someone who actually knows what poverty is, to someone who is smart enough not to buy the leftist “feelings” that the ‘Rich” need to be taxed more to “help” the poor, it’s obvious that the only way to improve the situation anywhere is to offer incentive to the people who produce. The incentive of being able to keep the fruit of their labor. The incentive of being able to profit from their industriousness. The incentive of knowing that the taxes they pay are being used wisely by competent people to do necesary things.

Once upon a time all those things were true here. The socialist agenda we have enjoyed for years has changed the outlook of the worker from empowered citizen to galley slave. Nobody who doesn’t get this now ever will. The internet is not going to magically transform us into a nation of people who have a solid grasp on reality- in fact, the internet is if anything, better at spreading stupid ideas than good ones. The best that we can hope for is that there will be honest class warfare, the wrfare of the people who work against the people who twist reality to suit their agenda. It has no business being “Rich vs poor” it needs to be “ruling vs ruled”. Remember that as you collect your wits to go out into the world.