In case you're wondering, the surge in views today is the result of a link from Greg Mankiw's blog. Yes, the Greg Mankiw who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2003-5 (Bernanke held the chair from 2005-6). Mankiw teaches at Harvard now, and he wrote two of the textbooks I used in college.
I'm all for bringing beatdowns to thieves, but we can't regulate our way out of recurrent banking panics. Look at what happened to Japan and Sweden in the early 90s. Or Iceland now. No laissez failure there. Inconsistent regulation is even worse than none at all.
Sarah, stop. There's no reason to be ashamed. We should have talked about this years ago. Masturbation is a healthy and beautiful thing. It is the safest form of sexual activity, and crucial to the sexual awakening you are both going through. Your father and I masturbate. We also masturbate each other.
The computer is yours. I'm going to shoot myself.
No way. I'm never touching that computer again. And Mom, that last part was just gratuitous. I'm going to Mary's house. Forever.
We'll have to continue tha
What are you two arguing about? It's giving me a headache.
Sarah is a shill for Scientology.
Chad won't give up the--oh my God. That's so disgusting.
What?
Mom, there's a tub of Crisco and a roll of toilet paper under the desk, by Chad's feet. He's been downloading porn and masturbating here.
What, are you a Scientologist? Do you still have a crush on Tom Cruise? He's almost as old as Dad. He's a bag of fail.
I think Tom Cruise is a good actor!
I think Tom Cruise is hiding in your closet. He doesn't seem to want to come out.
Shut up! He's not gay! He has a wife.
So did Rock Hudson.
He has a kid.
Everybody knows Katie Holmes was impregnated with the defrosted baby batter of L. Ron Hubbard.
Gross. You're a freak.
Nobody reads that piece of sh*t. My first YouTube video has nearly two million hits.
Whoop-te-f*cking-do. And Daniel wants to play Warcraft. He's been jumping on my bed for an hour and I swear to f*cking God that if he doesn't find something to do I'll spike his Kool-Aid with Mom's Xanax.
The epic Scientology raid is just days away. I need to recruit newf*gs.
Who cares about Scientology anyway.
Chad. Time's up. Let me use the computer.
I said give me a minute. I'm destroying Scientology. This is important.
Your time was up two hours ago. Christ, if you spent half the time you spent on IRC outside you'd have a girlfriend by now.
I'm not on IRC you retard. I'm making a video.
This is ridiculous. You've been at this for six hours. I'm sure Scientology will still be there tomorrow.
You don't know the history of Scientology. I do. There's no time to waste.
I want to update my MySpace page.
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We are Anonymous. We have no centralized leadership to attack. Your barratry will only drain your resources and further inflame the anger of the Internet, where freedom of information is not just a principle, but a sacrament.
Thanks for the comments. Even though this didn't get a higher rating (at least at the time of this writing), I can see that some of that is simply the result of referencing an old fad. Since several commenters said the new music is better and nobody actually said the old music is better, I'm entering this into the remix contest (which is at http://remixytmnd3.ytmnd.com).
As per a comment on my first version of this site, I have recreated the music with Garritan Personal Orchestra. I'm still not sure which version is better. Some seem to prefer the "primitive" sound of the old version. I can only submit one version for the remix contest, so I created this new YTMND to see if it gets a higher rating.
Okay, ignore the previous comment. I've restored the original music. I'm making a new YTMND with the new music. If that one gets a higher rating, it will become my contest entry.
As per a previous comment, I have revised this with the help of Garritan Personal Orchestra. I kept the percussion and some strings from Edirol Orchestral HQ, but the new organ lead and other lead strings are now produced by GPO. New mp3 download at http://content.ytmnd.com/content/f/e/c/fec953163d11be886c7a45ee9da956b8.mp3
What the hell? I thought Dec. 4 was the deadline, but now I find out that judging began forty hours ago! I just made a change--hope the judges notice. I respectfully submit that deadline changes should be *postponements* only. Unless Dec. 1 was the deadline all along and I just can't remember sh*t, in which case my complaining should be ignored.
Okay, so he's a poseur. They're everywhere. Been to a high school lately? The rest are just marginally less flamboyantly pretentious. He downvotes my sites, too. So my average rating is 0.0015625 lower than it would otherwise be. Boo hoo. If he were gone, another would replace him. Downvoters are indiscriminate, or nearly so, by definition, so they don't advantage or disadvantage anyone very much. He's perfectly harmless.
"sites promoting a consumer attitude" +1 for inadvertently funny pseudo-intellectual posturing. "Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble." - Samuel Johnson
Yes, I submitted this yesterday, then erased it because I didn't like the way the strings sounded. I tried fixing the problems, but I got fed up and resubmitted it as is. I realize now that I don't really know how to use FL Studio or Edirol, and I think I'll post the project file somewhere so someone who knows what they're doing can make a better version. If anybody cares.
