mpop

I was just listening to Rush Limbaugh, and a commercial came on (him reading the script, for CompUSA) And it talked about registering to win prizes, and some of the prizes were mount bikes, and massager bags "so you can get around campus in style" sounds like he is promoting to collages students to bike around school to me. Admittedly it was only a commercial for CompUSA but hay it is a nice bone to be thrown to us as bikers.

Metro

I'm not suprised that he "half promotes" cyclilng. He is a "half-a$$ed guy". He can do no more than that. - just my opinion.

dwightonabike

Half-a$$ed? Lets be fair now; Rush is a complete a$$!

Primevci

yeup

cruentus

The only reason he promotes anything is because he gets paid to.

Limbaugh is a bloated, gasbag, draft-dodger. Real tough guy sitting behind his microphone but a total poossy when it was his turn during the Vietnam War.

One word: Chicken-hawk.

webist

It's OK Michael, I listen to him also.

KingTermite 

I consider myself relatively conservative in my views and have got to the point over the years where I can't hardly stand to listen to Rush Limbaugh either. But....given the choice....better him than some liberal crap head like Bill Moyer.

galen_52657

Rush Limbaugh embodies everything that is wrong with neoconservatives.

mpop

Oh I do more then just listen, I watch on the ditto cam. (oh the pleasures of having 2 (or more) computer screens on your work desk)

It was funny today, some one called in today, and he was about to just burst out laughing you could see it on his face.

Roody

Let's all chip in and buy a Kona Hoss for Rush. And a bag of Vicodins if he crashes and hurts himself.

eff-J

They have massager bags now? Cool! My right shoulder has been kind of sore lately.

Don Gwinn

Limbaugh isn't perfect, but he still discusses things you don't get to hear about if you get all your news from the Today Show and the nightly news broadcast. Personally I can listen when I disagree with the host as well as when I agree.

But no, Rush isn't doing anything more than read a commercial from a paying customer. In that same commercial he talks about the sales staff at CompUsa knowing more about technology than "anybody out there" and I think we know that's not true, either.

Bockman

More Vicodin, anyone?

KingTermite 

I was wunderin' when the vike jokes would start!!

mpop

I know when he read that line I nearly passed out from laughing to hard. I will put money on it, I could go down to any CompUSA and start putting to the sale staff there computer questions they could not anser. But ofcource I am a Computer Programmer (C++) .

KingTermite 

Ditto....and have done it before (not even on purpose). I'm a software engineer (C/C++/Perl/C#/Java/VB/VB.Net/UML).

mpop

Oh shift that is alot of languages. I can only clame to be proficant in 3 of those. 2 I never want to touch, 2 I have played a bit with, but would never claim on a resume, 1 I would like to look into a bit (well I would some times just call 2 of the ones I know just one since they are so closely related)

KingTermite 

hehee......I didn't list a few others that I've only used a "little bit". Been working as a software engineer for 7 years now. When I got out of school, all I really knew was C. Luckily have had some good "rounded" experience here.

FXjohn

To be fair, Rush has been speaking out alot against eminent domain laws lately

mpop

(starts to thing maybe we should move this to foo if we continue on the programming talk)

cool 7, I left school 4 years ago (right after the dot bomb) so I could not get a programming job out of school, I worked for a little over 2 years in a dead end operations job (still semi-computer related) but back in Nov of 2003 I finally landed my dram programming job, in the same "company" CMU I am looking to Nov of this year, it will be officially my 2nd year as a “professional programmer” (aka someone that gets paid to program). But one thing is that I have been working only on a C++ program, I am programming in a group that main focus is Social Networking stuff. So the chances to play with other languages is not that great, they care mainly about C++ and Java (I might get a chance in a ˝ to 1 year to work on that a bit to increase my skills there.)

KingTermite 

I had a dead end operations job for 10 years.....that was my "going through school" job. I did school half time so that's why it took 10 years (bachelors and 1/2 of masters).

I know the feeling...wish I got to play with more languages. I never seem to find the time at home anymore....especially since I finally caught the "cycling bug".

oboeguy

QFT.

I'll be he think bike commuters are "environmentalist wackos" too. I've listend to RL at times to hear what that sociopolitical set has to say. Meh.

noisebeam

As pointed out, this has nothing to do with Rush, its just a paid commercial.

But if you want to take it to its cynical worst, consider that the free bikes/bags are a CompUSA promotion aimed at college students, which is basically feeding into the stereotype that bikes are the poor and/or young mans mode of transportation.

Al

Don Gwinn

at the computer nerds. I work at Best Buy part time and you two could surely tie me in knots. My favorite sales pitch is:
"That's a good question. Let me go get my (networking, Mac, Linux, video card, etc.) expert and we'll get it figured out."
It amounts to "I'm a dummy, but I know how to fetch."



If it makes you feel any better, they're also giving away an SUV, thus perpetuating the hurtful stereotype that the SUV is the poor and/or young man's transportation.

I think they're also throwing in some bags, feeding the stereotype that a bag is a poor college student's way of carrying things (professionals use briefcases or, failing that, tightly-fitted and pitch-sealed wooden tubs and barrels lashed to sherpas) and notebook computers, feeding the stereotype that high-end electronics are a poor/young man's way of organizing and manipulating data in digital form.

The bastards.

john999

I don't take advice from junkies.