I can't locate a torrent file and it is not showing here. "Unemployed" = moved to Fuck You Contract Work, I cannot afford to travel to see it unless "work" takes me.

What a flick this one has to be. The crash. Supersized.

http://live.wsj.com/video/the-story-behind-queen-of-versailles/D72C3357-FB5B-4894-A39B-084CF5EF0A5A.html#!D72C3357-FB5B-4894-A39B-084CF5EF0A5A

From that other place:



One of the positive things about our giant economic collapse has been an outbreak of honesty among the billionaires who run America. Now they seem to feel free to express how they truly feel about the rest of us.

Here are the views of David Siegel (http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/15148-versailles-the-would-be-biggest-house-in-america%3Cbr%20/%3E), timeshare mogul and star of the new documentary Queen of Versailles (http://www.magpictures.com/thequeenofversailles/). He and his wife Jackie first got national attention for their attempt to build the largest house in America, a 90,000-square foot Versailles replica:

http://img.youtube.com/vi/9JX8NMYo_gk/0.jpg


David and Jackie have been surprised by the criticism of their lifestyle. “So much negativity. You would think they would be happy for someone living the American dream,” Jackie says. … As for the notion that the divide between the wealthy and everyone else is grotesquely wide, David says: “There’s always been rich and poor, the 1 percent and the 99 percent.” And then he adds, “It’s like a prison. If you only have prisoners and no guards, you’d have chaos.”

Hey Rusto, I know exactly what you're talking about with "contract work". They call it 1099 abuse now..turns out giving it a name doesn't change a single damn thing.

Are you a satellite installer or something like that?

Hah... "Timeshare Mogul"...

Not exactly the same stature as Steel Tycoon or Railroad Baron, is it? Still, those other guys were clowns too, and this pendejo has enough cash to bring his renaissance fantasy into reality. Putting aside the question of how one can have Versailles without Doctor Guillotine...

Dhal was defending What is to be Done the other week as a great book. It is a great book but it ain't no novel. It is a set of model speeches to be memorized and understood.

These Bozos don't have their own books like that so they use Victor Hugo and Jane Austin and Charles Dickens. Wifey probably reads to him as he stands in front of the mirror and imagines himself as Yul Brynner as the fookin' King of Siam... using the speeches of the villians in the great books.

Hey Rusto, I know exactly what you're talking about with "contract work". They call it 1099 abuse now..turns out giving it a name doesn't change a single damn thing. Are you a satellite installer or something like that? Exactly that, including a 400+ mi day today beside the work. Pay? Not much more than minimum wage so long as we ignore the 1/3 or so in taxes. Yippee. What else could I be, being single and all. Thanks the gawds for bringing in some folks more fucked than me. The chick has a new job (whopping $8.10 an hour at a new Walmart) and the dude able to help me hustle this fuck-us contract. So long as I don't get popped for working (*and I have not yet been paid in 6 weeks) for working and can hold UE bennies, we are in striking distance of making it. Them saved and, by commiekarma, me too...

Dhal was defending What is to be Done the other week as a great book. It is a great book but it ain't no novel. It is a set of model speeches to be memorized and understood. Been wanting to read this for a while but cannot find online. Is there a source? If not, I need a paper copy which appear equally elusive. How to?

Been wanting to read this for a while but cannot find online. Is there a source? If not, I need a paper copy which appear equally elusive. How to?

Its not online, I can get you a print copy easily though. We've talked about trying to get it scanned in but that never really got off the ground.

I take it back, it looks like the book is available as an ebook for the Kindle (I didn't check any other formats yet). You don't actually need a Kindle to read it you can just download the software to your computer.

Its only $3 here:

http://www.amazon.com/Whats-be-done-romance-ebook/dp/B0086S189U/ref=sr_1_4_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1344336589&sr=8-4&keywords=what+is+to+be+done+chernyshevsky

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_pc_mkt_lnd?docId=1000426311

There are two translations in remote parts of the web (one is a 19th century translation and is awful). I'll see if I can find the later one.

There are two translations in remote parts of the web (one is a 19th century translation and is awful). I'll see if I can find the later one.

I downloaded the Kindle one to see which version it is but I haven't got around to looking at it yet

Both 19th century english editions are available (for free) on Google Books. For the better one, go to Google Books and search for: "A vital question". You can download the entire edition. The details are:

A Vital Question;
or,
What is to be Done?
By Nikolai G. Tchernnuishevsky
Translated By Nathan Haskell Dole and S.S. Skidelsky
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
New York
1886

Both 19th century english editions are available (for free) on Google Books. For the better one, go to Google Books and search for: "A vital question". You can download the entire edition. The details are: A Vital Question; or, What is to be Done? By Nikolai G. Tchernnuishevsky Translated By Nathan Haskell Dole and S.S. Skidelsky Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. New York 1886 http://archive.org/details/cu31924096961036 Multiple formats.