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Review of George Orwell's "1984"
This is one of those books that is hard to do justice with a review. The copy that I read, borrowed from my best friend, has a preface by Walter Cronkite written in 1983, and an afterword by Eric Fromm in 1961. I'll share a little bit of each of these before I write my own review. I'm only not sharing the full preface or afterword to at least try to preserve a little of their copyright.
Here's various passages from Cronkite's preface:
"'Big Brother' has become a common term for ubiquitous or overreaching authority, and 'Newspeak' is a word we apply to the dehumanizing babble of bureaucracies and computer programs."
"Seldom has a book provided a greater wealth of symbols for its age and for the generations to follow, and seldom have literary symbols been invested with such power. How is that? Because they were so useful, and because the features of the world he drew, outlandish as they were, also were familiar."
"What Orwell had done was not to foresee the future but to see the implications of the present – his present and ours – and he touched a common chord. He had given words and shapes to common but unarticulated fears running deep through all industrial societies."
"1984 is an anguished lament and a warning that we may not be strong enough nor wise enough nor moral enough to cope with the kind of power we have learned to amass. That warning vibrates powerfully when we allow ourselves to sit still and think carefully about orbiting satellites that can read the license plates in a parking lot and computers that can tap into thousands of telephone calls and telex transmissions at once and other computers that can do our banking and purchasing, can watch the house and tell a monitoring station what television program we are watching and how many people there are in the room. We think of Orwell when we read of scientists who believe they have located in the human brain the seats of behavioral emotions like aggression, or learn more about the vast potential of genetic engineering."
"Critics and scholars may argue quite legitimately about the particular literary merits of 1984. But none can deny its power, its hold on the imaginations of whole generations, nor the power of its admonitions . . . a power that seems to grow rather than lessen with the passage of time. It has been said that 1984 fails as a prophecy because it succeeded as a warning – Orwell's terrible vision has been averted. Well, that kind of self-congratulation is, to say the least, premature. 1984 may not arrive on time, but there's always 1985.
Still, the warning has been effective; and every time we use one of those catch phrases . . . recognize Big Brother in someone, see a 1984 in our future . . . notice something Orwellian . . . we are listening to that warning again."
Here's some highlights from Fromm's afterword.
"The Christian thinkers of the late Middle Ages emphasized that although the 'Kingdom of God' was not within historical time, the social order must correspond to and realize the spiritual principles of Christianity. The Christian sects before and after the Reformation emphasized these demands in more urgent, more active and revolutionary ways. With the breakup of the medieval world, man's sense of strength, and his hope, not only for individual but for social perfection, assumed new strength and took new ways.
One of the most important ones is a new form of writing which developed since the Renaissance, the first expression of which was Thomas More's Utopia (literally: 'Nowhere'), a name which was then generically applied to all other similar works. Thomas More's Utopia combined a most penetrating criticism of his own society, its irrationality and its injustice, with the picture of a society which, though perhaps not perfect, had solved most of the human problems which sounded insoluble to his own contemporaries. What characterizes Thomas More's Utopia, and all the others, is that they do not speak in general terms of principles, but give an imaginative picture of the concrete details of a society which corresponds to the deepest longings of man. In contrast to prophetic thought, these perfect societies are not at 'the end of the days' but exist already – though in a geographic distance rather than in the distance of time."
"This hope for man's individual and social perfectibility, which in philosophical and anthropological terms was clearly expressed in the writings of the Enlightenment philosophers of the eighteenth century and of the socialist thinkers of the nineteenth, remained unchanged until after the First World War. This war, in which millions died for the territorial ambitions of the European powers, although under the illusion of fighting for peace and democracy, was the beginning of that development which tended in a relatively short time to destroy a two-thousand-year-old Western tradition of hope and to transform it into a mood of despair. The moral callousness of the First World War was only the beginning. Other events followed: the betrayal of the socialist hopes by Stalin's reactionary state capitalism; the severe economic crisis at the end of the twenties; the victory of barbarism in one of the oldest centers of culture in the world – Germany; the insanity of Stalinist terror during the thirties; the Second World War, in which all the fighting nations lost some of the moral considerations which had still existed in the First World War; the unlimited destruction of civilian populations, started by Hitler and continued by the even more complete destruction of cities such as Hamburg and Dresden and Tokyo, and eventually by the use of atomic bombs against Japan. Since then the human race has been confronted with an even greater danger – that of the destruction of our civilization, if not of all mankind, by thermonuclear weapons as they exist today and as they are being developed in increasingly frightful proportions.
Most people, however, are not consciously aware of this threat and of their own hopelessness. Some believe that just because modern warfare is so destructive, war is impossible; others declare that even if sixty or seventy million Americans were killed in the first one or two days of a nuclear war, there is no reason to believe that life would not go on as before after the first shock has been overcome. It is precisely the significance of Orwell's book that it expresses the new mood of hopelessness which pervades our age before this mood has become manifest and taken hold of the consciousness of people.
Orwell is not alone in this endeavor. Two other writers, the Russian Zamyatin in his book We, and Aldous Huxley in his Brave New World, have expressed the mood of the present, a warning for the future, in ways very similar to Orwell's. This new trilogy of what may be called the "negative utopias" of the middle of the twentieth century is the counterpoint to the trilogy of the positive utopias mentioned before, written in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.1 The negative utopias express the mood of powerlessness and hopelessness of modern man just as the early utopias expressed the mood of self-confidence and hope of post-medieval man. There could be nothing more paradoxical in historical terms than this change: man, at the beginning of the industrial age, when it reality he did not possess the means for a world in which the table was set for all who wanted to eat, when he lived in a world in which there were economic reasons for slavery, war, and exploitation, in which man only sensed the possibilities of his new science and of its application to technique and to production – nevertheless man at the beginning of modern development was full of hope. Four hundred years later, when all these hopes are realizable, when man can produce enough for everybody, when war has become unnecessary because technical progress can give any country more wealth than can territorial conquest, when this globe is in the process of becoming as unified as a continent was four hundred years ago, at the very moment when man is on the verge of realizing his hope, he begins to lose it. It is the essential point of all three negative utopias not only to describe the future toward which we are moving, but also explain the historical paradox."
(Here was a footnote in the book. 1. It should be added that Jack London's The Iron Heel, the prediction of fascism in America, is the earliest of the modern negative utopias.)
"…can human nature be changed in such a way that man will forget his longing for freedom, for dignity, for integrity, for love – that is to say, can man forget that he is human? Or does human nature have a dynamism which will react to the violation of these basic human needs by attempting to change an inhuman society into a human one? It must be noted that the three authors do not take the simple position of psychological relativism which is common to so many social scientists today; they do not start out with the assumption that there is no such thing as human nature; that there is no such thing as qualities essential to man; and that man is born as nothing but a blank sheet of paper on which any given society writes its text. They do assume that man has an intense striving for love, for justice, for truth, for solidarity, and in this respect they are quite different from the relativists. In fact, they affirm the strength and intensity of these human strivings by the description of the very means they present as being necessary to destroy them. In Zamyatin's We a brain operation similar to a lobotomy is necessary to get rid of the human demands of human nature. In Huxley's Brave New World artificial biological selection and drugs are necessary, and in Orwell's 1984 it is the completely unlimited use of torture and brainwashing. None of the three authors can be accused of the thought that the destruction of the humanity within man is easy. Yet all three arrive at the same conclusion: that it is possible, with means and techniques which are common knowledge today."
"The importance of Orwell's concept of war lies in a number of very keen observations.
First of all, he shows the economic significance of continuous arms production, without which the economic system cannot function. Furthermore, he gives an impressive picture of how a society must develop which is constantly preparing for war, constantly afraid of being attacked, and preparing to find the means of complete annihilation of its opponents [emphasis mine]. Orwell's picture is so pertinent because it offers a telling argument against the popular idea that we can save freedom and democracy by continuing the arms race and finding a 'stable' deterrent. This soothing picture ignores the fact that with increasing technical 'progress' (which creates entirely new weapons about every 5 years, and will soon permit the development of 100 or 1000 instead of 10 megaton bombs), the whole society will be forced to live underground, but that the destructive strength of thermonuclear bombs will always remain greater than the depth of the caves, that the military will become dominant (in fact, if not in law), that fright and hatred of a possible aggressor will destroy the basic attitudes of a democratic, humanistic society [emphasis mine]. In other words, the continued arms race, even if it would not lead to the outbreak of a thermonuclear war, would lead to the destruction of any of those qualities of our society which can be called 'democratic,' 'free,' or 'in the American tradition.' Orwell demonstrates the illusion of the assumption that democracy can continue to exist in a world preparing for nuclear war, and he does so imaginatively and brilliantly.
Another important aspect is Orwell's description of the nature of truth, which on the surface is a picture of Stalin's treatment of truth, especially in the thirties. But anyone who sees in Orwell's description only another denunciation of Stalinism is missing an essential element of Orwell's analysis. He is actually talking about a development which is taking place in the Western industrial countries also, only at a slower pace than it is taking place in Russia and China. The basic question which Orwell raises is whether there is any such thing as 'truth.' 'Reality,' so the ruling party holds, 'is not external. Reality exists in the human mind and nowhere else . . . whatever the Party holds to be truth is truth.' If this is so, then by controlling men's minds the Party controls truth."
"An American writer, Alan Harrington, who in Life in the Crystal Palace gives a subtle and penetrating picture of life in a big American corporation, has coined an excellent expression for the contemporary concept of truth: 'mobile truth.' If I work for a big corporation which claims that its product is better than that of all competitors, the question whether this claim is justified or not in terms of ascertainable reality becomes irrelevant. What matters is that as long as I serve this particular corporation, this claim becomes 'my' truth, and I decline to examine whether it is an objectively valid truth. In fact, if I change my job and move over to the corporation which was until now 'my' competitor, I shall accept the new truth, that its product is the best, and subjectively speaking, this new truth will be as true as the old one."
"Truth is proven by the consensus of millions; to the slogan 'how can millions be wrong' is added 'and how can a minority of one be right.' Orwell shows quite clearly that in a system in which the concept of truth as an objective judgment concerning reality is abolished, anyone who is a minority of one must be convinced that he is insane."
"Related to this is another example of 'doublethink,' namely that few writers, discussing atomic strategy, stumble over the fact that killing, from a Christian standpoint, is as evil or more evil than being killed."
"Books like Orwell's are powerful warnings, and it would be most unfortunate if the reader smugly interpreted 1984 as another description of Stalinist barbarism, and if he does not see that it means us, too."
Reviews such as these are enough to destroy a young man's confidence, and make him wonder why he's writing a review at all. But the point, I suppose, isn't to write a "better" review, but, merely, to write a personal one. I think that's worthwhile.
The first time that I read any of this book was in high school. It was an assigned reading. Which means that I didn't read it.
I tried to read parts of it, but I was quite stupid back then, and didn't understand what the "Party" was. I didn't understand "political" parties. Yes, I had almost graduated high school without realizing that. That was really my first experience with the book. That's it. Depressing, I know.
I came to get an idea of what the book was about by frequently hearing terms like "Orwellian", or even phrases like "straight out of 1984", mixed with varying contexts. I didn't need the book "1984" to realize that politicians were crooked and liars. So, through context clues, I came to understand a little of the general theme of the book. Nowhere near enough, but a minor taste. Funnily enough, I tried to fill in the gaps, and, after reading the book, realized that I failed. I knew of the word "doublethink", but never thought of the phrase that often. Instead, I thought of something called "doublespeak", which I interpreted to mean as just plain old lying. I'm glad I read the book, however, because it's a much deeper story than just "lying". Over and over and over, things felt eerily similar to today. Today, where Americans are "thankful for their freedoms" while they keep getting trampled upon. Celebrating American nationalism while ignoring domestic tyrannies. Yes, "doublethink" is alive and well in America today. Internet "meme" culture makes these instances of "doublethink" all too aware; particularly among libertarian "social circles" online.
I'll start with a couple of critiques, then, attempt to give it at least a miniscule of the praise that it deserves. I know that the book is "dystopian", but I enjoy poetic ways of saying things. I hope, as a writer myself, to be able to express poetically. I also eagerly await finding other "poets" (I know I can read poems, but I want poetic ways of saying things within prose as well). But the book is dystopian, and I guess it's a little much to expect poetry in a dystopian novel. And it is only a minor critique, anyway. But I also get the sense that Orwell, like Cronkite, is a little "anti-technology". I think it is evident that Orwell didn't like television (as all of the "telescreens" in the book were used for spying and for barking out orders), while all of the books were rewritten to fit an agenda.
I also am not a fan of television. At all. I don't pay for cable, nor satellite. Just "the internet". I grew very tired of television, particularly advertisements, over the years. Also, it is very easy to get frustrated with "news-watchers" or "TV gorgers", but, in my opinion, there's too much focus on attacks of the technology itself. As I said, I do find television to be deplorable, particularly the way advertisements occur on them. And it does deserve critique. But let's not become so blind by hatred of technology that we attack technological progress itself, and forget all of the good things that technology does for us. There's a temptation to do just that; particularly among Conservatives, but I'll get into that in a second. But focus more on the deplorability of the "proles", not so much the technologies with which they entertain themselves.
Sure, it is one thing to bash atomic weapons, and some of the torture devices that exist in the book. It's acceptable to bash technologies which exist solely to destroy, especially in particularly inhumane ways or at particular scales of destruction. But television isn't an atomic weapon. I suppose that I don't read enough to warrant giving a defense of "moving pictures", but I've studied economics for a little while now, and I've started to really appreciate the technology that we have today. It certainly makes sense to me how one would praise books over television. I wouldn't be able to successfully argue against that, and I'd agree with that. TV just does things in front of your eyes, including brain-deadening advertisement after advertisement after advertisement (although, thanks to technologies such as TiVo and DVR, people aren't subjected to them as often as they used to be). Whereas books are far more engaging of the brain. So I can understand defending books against "telescreens" (in the realistic way screens are today, even though, increasingly, our devices are spying upon us, with "Big Business" and "Big Government" teaming up against us all. There's that word again: "Orwellian").
But I have also spent basically all of my life around old Conservative grumps who complain about "kids these days" and the technology that they have. These old people enjoy the fact that they have smartphones, but hate the fact that children do. They'll say "Technology is corrupting our youth", or whatever. In truth, it is really envy on the part of these old people. Many of these old people really did have difficult childhoods, and they are envious that children today don't have it as badly as they did. That's not a satisfactory indictment against technology. One has to wonder if many Conservatives, who claim that guns are "just a tool", feel that way about video games, or smartphones, or what have you. Of course they don't. They can't apply their "tool" logic universally. That's a major problem with Conservatives. I know that Cronkite and Orwell had deeper meanings than that when they criticized technology in the way that they did, but that has to be in one's mind: How much of their critique is just old grumpiness?
However, even though, on one side, there are Conservatives who unfairly bash "technology" simply because it is "new", or whatever their justification ultimately is, there is an opposite, although still negative, side of that coin. And that is "scientism". "Scientism" is the belief that humans can be subjected to the scientific method such as a pool stick is to a cue ball. I'm not talking about, say, the effects of medicines on cells, or whatever. I'm talking about "social engineering". I think Orwell discussed this brilliantly. Some people have a fallacious belief that we are better than we've ever been, as in morally superior to those in the past. I can understand that belief to a certain extent (as, for instance, slavery is more universally regarded as repugnant today than it has ever been), but these people go way too far with that idea. They're the exact opposite of Conservatives, but they are still dangerous, if not more so than Conservatives. They treat the passage of time, and technological progress, as ipso facto improvements upon man's ethics. This isn't really "new": it's been around for a long time now. "If it is scientific, it can't be immoral." Ignoring, say, inhumane, unethical scientific testing which has been done historically, or attempts in the early 20th century to replace God with "science" (more specifically, the State's application of "science"), leading to the deaths of countless millions. Science doesn't eliminate man's natural inclination towards hubris. "Science", in fact, seems to ignore "man's nature" constantly. It basically comes right out and says "There is no such thing as human nature". And this was even before the "sexual Progressives" of today had taken over as they have now. Science-minded people seem to have an aversion to the concept of "human nature". Unless, of course, they're talking about how scientifically stupid most people are. But the pride of "science-minded" people is still alive and well today. Trying to push us more and more into statism, while, ironically enough, the "traditional, old-fashioned" Conservatives are their "biggest enemy". It just makes one wonder why so many people think similarly. Interesting. It also makes you wonder how any ever thinks differently.
For more discussion on "human nature" and "apriorism", check out some Austrian-school thinkers such as Murray Rothbard and David Gordon.
Of course, I didn't even go into detail of how else "science" has replaced "God" with how it is fearfully preached by people who don't even understand what it is that they are preaching. They are afraid of being "heretics"; afraid of not being accepted by their peers. So they scream "science" constantly, not understanding it themselves, but putting the utmost faith in anyone who calls himself a "scientist" (legitimate or not), much like faith was put into the clergy before the Reformation.
But, to continue with "1984": The main character, Winston Smith, is old enough to remember a time before "the Party" took over. This also made me think of Conservatives lamenting a "bygone" era. Now, within the context of the book, I was fine with this lamentation. But in "the real world", it's annoying. Old Conservatives seem to think that the '50s were the holiest generation on God's green earth. With each passing day, they complain about how much more lost the world is becoming. Never mind the fact that in the very book that they claim to "believe" in, the Bible, one of the very first siblings ever created here on earth killed the other one. No, still yet, there's some bygone era that was holier than today. No, the truth is that these Conservatives are full of shit. This, of course, is not to say that there aren't legitimate lamentations of a bygone era. Of course, as tyranny increases, it is perfectly understandable and acceptable to think of a past time more free than currently. But that's not all that Conservatives do. They have rose-tinted glasses for the past, regardless of how horrible the past really was. But, then again, don't Conservatives complain about the past as well? Conservatives complain about today, and the technology that exists. Which, I suppose, is a complaint that the technology didn't exist back then. But they are supposed to be "authorities": they can't admit to the young ones that they are jealous of them. Let's just spank them and condemn them for playing video games. You know, the "responsible" thing to do. In fairness, once again, I don't believe this was the gist of Cronkite's discussion of technology. I think Cronkite was mainly concerned with how government (or cronies in connection with government) could use the growing technology for nefarious purposes. Also, he has some legitimate concerns about privacy. Google Earth is kind of frightening. Most of the time, when I use it, I'm just interested to see how accurate things are where I live. But it doesn't bother me that much. Who cares if satellites can see my neighborhood? I can see my neighborhood when I go outside. I can see my neighborhood online if I take pictures of it and post them. The only concern that I have with it, in truth, is the fact that Google and the government are in each others' pockets. I think that is a legitimate concern with technology, and I know both Cronkite and Orwell thought about technology in that same way.
But, "Conservative" analysis of technology aside: What did I think of the core message of the book, about Statism taking over the world? The book is excellent. I greatly envy Orwell. "1984" is a book that I wish that I had written. The book is obviously transcendent. While reading the book, I felt a combination of dread and hope. I really think it would be hard for anyone to view the book any other way. The dread is obvious. It is obvious to anyone who isn't a "prole"; to anyone who isn't a "knave" or "dupe". People have spent, and continue to spend, their whole lives making careers out of warning about tyranny (and countless other "screamers" who aren't doing it professionally). Fromm did an excellent job of contrasting pre-WWI writing with post-WWI writing. Most certainly, people continue to warn against tyranny today. Crediting Orwell the whole way through. Praising "1984" seems futile, because it really speaks for itself. It spoke, and the world continues to carry it on. It is a libertarian torch. The only differences between the passings of the torch are the specific words used, but the praise is universal among people who value freedom. The dread runs parallel to conclusions drawn to today from the book. If one looks hard enough, one can see that every day is a step towards 1984. And it is very easy to see 1984 when one takes account of how many of his fellow citizens don't see 1984.
So 1984 is very clearly a tale of the human condition. About the conflict that exists within us. The desire for freedom, and the desire for control. It is a ceaseless ping-pong game with no winners, and where everyone dies at the end of it. Control is futile, and control is Hell. There's very little solace for a man who has a gun pointed to his head, and there will always be someone in the future who faces a barrel, just the same. There will always be someone ignorant of the barrel, someone staring down the barrel, someone holding the barrel, someone trying to wrestle away the barrel, someone trying to destroy the barrel. There's no end to evil on Earth. Not ultimately. There's only fighting it, or perpetuating it. You can't "ignore" it away. It will consume you.
But the ultimate takeaway that I've drawn from "1984" is a reinforcement for a developing belief of mine that I've had for a little while now. And that belief is to enjoy freedom when you have it. I spend a lot of time listening and talking about liberty and tyranny. I get something from it. Despite the similarities between America today and "1984", there are significant differences. America is freer than "Oceania", "Eurasia", and "Eastasia"; the three "countries" in "1984" (I think it is fair to say that this holds true, even though the story only takes place in "Eurasia", specifically, in what used to be London). Appreciate it. Don't be so foolish as to believe tyranny an impossibility, but enjoy your freedoms while you have them. It isn't 1984 quite yet. And don't let it get there. Who knows how to alert the proles, if it is even possible to do so. But regardless of who is listening, scream out. If the heart desires freedom, scream out about it. It doesn't matter who finds you odd when you're screaming freedom. Do it while you can. As much as you can stand it. Express yourself, as much as you want to, while you are able. Make it whatever you want to make it; as serious, or as silly. Just do it. Despite trends toward it, there still isn't a Ministry of Truth just yet. I'm sure there's aspects of the Ministry of Love that the public doesn't know about. And the Ministry of Peace remains in full effect, as always.
Overall, my takeaway is simple. Yes, 1984 can happen anywhere, anytime, including "here". Don't be so naive as to believe that your "country" is different. But take full advantage of any freedoms that you have. Exercise your humanity while you are still human. Enjoy your freedoms. And just read the book for yourself, if you haven't already. And if you have, well, maybe read it again.
Review of "Gerald's Game" by Stephen King
At first, it might seem odd why a young man, with a critical penchant, would decide to subject himself to a story in which, no doubt, the subject matter would be ripe for critique. Why does a man subject himself to something he hates, only to complain about it? It must be that he actually enjoys the complaints. But that's not the full story here.
No, this story has some personal history with me. I first started to read "Gerald's Game" as a kid. I forget the specific age, but it was somewhere between the ages of 10 and 14. My father was a frequent reader on the pot (the shitty kind), and, one day, while on the pot myself, I discovered this book. I don't even think I realized that there were handcuffs on the cover. In fact, I don't even think I realized what they were until I had already started reading the book for the second time, this year. I'm an odd combination of attention to detail, yet a lack of contextual awareness.
At any rate, I first began to read this book at a young age. I think that was a very significant act which has, believe it or not, gone a long way to shape my philosophy today. That might seem like an exaggeration, but I do not believe it is. For I believe, if my memory serves me correctly, that it was this book, that I first began to read as a child, which made me realize that one can make a conscious decision to put "controversial" things into writing. This was the first "adulterated" book that I had ever attempted to read. I do not recall how far into the book I got back then, but I know I didn't finish it. But I remembered reading about a woman handcuffed to a bed, and a man, with an erection, getting kicked by said woman, and dying. And I recall reading about a dog eating said dead man. From when I was a child. And I was hooked. It was so graphic that I was hooked. I wasn't scared of it, but I had this weird fondness for it. There was a bravery to writing something like that. I greatly admired it, even back then. I wasn't disgusted, but impressed.
Fast-forward several years later, when my desire to write for myself grows, and so does my desire to read more often. My history with reading is a pretty complicated mess, but suffice it to say that I have recently desired to go back and reread some stuff that I had either completely read or partially read from my youth. And this was one of the books. Here is the official "review".
I was hooked by the concept. As I reread, I recalled what I had read before. Was it more captivating back then than it was now? That's hard to say. My youthful inexperience may have made it more captivating back then, but I still enjoyed the concept this time around. I really loved the concept. As I was reading, I was fascinated by thinking of how he could keep this storyline going for so many pages. I don't like the way Stephen King writes. I don't like how he writes. I don't like his "voice", I guess you could say. His "ebb and flow" is very clunky. But I liked the overall message. I liked the "impression". A woman is handcuffed to a bed. How does she get out? I like that idea. I like the fact that it goes on and on and on and on. What in the Hell is going to happen to her? I was hooked, despite the writing that made me want to grit my teeth from time to time. I enjoy what happened in the book, just not how they were told. Her struggle to get a glass of water. Her flashbacks to her childhood. There was a theme to the book that I found quite humorous.
To the dedication of the book: "This book is dedicated, with love and admiration, to six good women: Margaret Spruce Morehouse, Catherine Spruce Graves, Stephanie Spruce Leonard, Anne Spruce Labree, Tabitha Spruce King, Marcella Spruce". The following page provides a quote, as King is one to do in the few books of his that I've read: "[Sadie] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. 'You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!' – W. Somerset Maugham, 'Rain'". I suppose this is "sexist" of me, but my first instinct to realizing that this was going to be a major theme in the book was laughter. I couldn't help but think of modern feminism. The book credits King's copyright to 1992. Being born in that year, and being raised in the 90s (but mainly in the early 2000s), I believe that I can say that the current feministic trend is stronger than ever, but was growing even during my childhood. Words are annoying, and tricky. They can mean different things, and unraveling them is annoying. Truthful words are only valuable to those who value truth. But modern-day feminism is a disaster. And I couldn't help but think of this as I started to realize what a major theme of this book was going to be.
However, I also understand that a man can dedicate something to influential women in his life without being a "cuck". I'm cynical, but not that cynical. King wanted to dedicate something to the women in his life. Ok, I'm fine with that. Let's continue with the story.
There's an interesting reference which runs through the book of a certain "smell". The main character of the book, Gerald Burlingame's wife, Jessie (before any feminists get their cum-stained panties in a bunch, "Gerald's" name came first because his name is actually in the title of the book), gets emotionally uncomfortable around a certain smell. Gerald and Jessie are in a lakehouse, spending time alone together. Jessie associates lakehouses with this certain "smell". The damp smell of the lake. But it also brings to her mind the smell of semen.
For, you see, when Jessie was a little girl, her family spent the summer at a lakehouse as well. The family (Jessie, her brother, and mom and dad) were going to meet up with some other people to witness the eclipse that was going to happen, but her father wanted alone time with Jessie. The mother was reluctant, but, ultimately, it happened.
The father tells Jessie to put on this tight dress because it makes her look pretty. Jessie, being young, feels good that her father compliments her because she loves her father like children do. He tells her to sit on his lap, he gets an erection, and ends up cumming on her butt. He then tells her to go clean up.
She, obviously, is confused. She goes to remove her clothes and take a shower, and her distress grows as she realizes something smelly on her underwear. As she's changing clothes, her father comes into the room. Jessie doesn't want to tell her mother about what happened, and her father manipulates her by making sure that Jessie doesn't want to tell her mother.
Jessie has these flashbacks as she remains handcuffed to the bed. The majority of the book is her talking to herself. A great concept. She goes through ebbs and flows. A dog comes in and starts eating Gerald. She starts battling thirst, and tries to get a glass of water that is left on the bed to drink. And that's about it. She's handcuffed, the door to the house is banging open and shut by the wind, she's thirsty, and there's a dog. And flashbacks, and her own thoughts. I liked the concept. She keeps talking to herself and talking to herself. But she talks to herself as other people that have existed in her life. There's a feminist that she went to college with who was her "strong" side, who motivated her to try to figure out ways to get unhandcuffed. Her mother. That was the main point of the book: just her voices in her head, and what was going to happen to her. It was "ok". I cared more about her situation than the voices in her head. I like the idea of one talking to oneself the whole time while in a situation like this, but it just felt forced to me. It felt like forced, annoying feministic crap. Perhaps I'm too cynical, partly because of the time in which I live. But it felt forced. "I love you, women in my life! You're powerful!" Eh. I might be able to tolerate that a little more if King was a better writer. But my thoughts on King's writing style is "Eh. Clunky." Felt that way about "It" as well. But, as I said, as I was reading this, I realized that I'm a little jaded. It's fine for King to dedicate something to the women in his life. And, I'm sure, he was influenced by stories they have told him throughout the years. They probably had strong feminist friends in college, and that influenced him. But it was just annoying to me, especially considering today's climate. And the way King Tweets.
Just as an aside, at one point, more than halfway through the book, the passage of fictional time is about 21 hours. And the book is 445 pages. Yeah. I won't say "typical King", however. After reading the 1,000+ pages of "It", this was a relief.
There's this strange thing that comes into the room at night and Jessie isn't sure if it's her imagination or if there is something there. It's got unnaturally long arms and big hands, and it opens up this bag to her and has golden rings and fingers in it and probably some other stuff I'm forgetting, like nipples. She isn't sure if it's real or her imagination but she decides, after a few nights, that she isn't going to wait around anymore to find out. She breaks the glass after she's drank all of the water, and uses a giant shard of it to cut her hand so that her blood can provide lubrication so she can slip out of her cuff. Nice. I liked that. I like fictional gore. There's some drama, and eventually, she gets out of the house. The long-armed thing is chasing her and she's still not sure if it's completely real or not but she assumes it's real, gets into the car and has trouble starting it (of course). But it finally starts, and she's driving away. Slowly. Something whispers in her ear and she looks in the rearview and sees the creature in the backseat (I might have that order swapped) and she ends up crashing into a tree.
Turns out the "creature" was real, and it was this guy who dug up corpses and fucked them and took rings off of their fingers and kept body parts as well. Anyway, he gets caught, and she goes to his trial in secret, as people in town know about her story. Can't remember if it was from the cops talking to the paper or if she wrote about it herself. Maybe both. I don't really care. She sits right behind him, gets his attention, and spits in his goofy, aloof face. Then, she documents what happened to her. And that's it.
This story really strikes me as "difference between the sexes". I could see women liking this book more than men. But it's written by a man (King, no less), so how much women are actually going to be able to relate to it is uncertain, to say the least. Once again, I can appreciate that King loves the women in his life, and wanted to really write something for them to show them he cares about them and appreciates them. But, it's King. The writing style leaves a lot to be desired, and it came across to me with a significant amount of feminist crap. I suppose I'm contributing to rape culture, as I'm not emotionally invested and siding with a woman who gave in to her husband's fetish against her better judgment, but this story isn't very good. King's writing still annoys me, the "feminist" twinge, for lack of a better term, annoyed me, even though I could also simultaneously appreciate it, but I liked the idea. I like the idea of someone being trapped in a helpless situation for a long time. That's a good idea for fiction, and I can definitely see myself being inspired by this in something I may write down the road.
Basically, I guess what I'm saying is that this is very obviously a book about women written by a nerd. And that, like many things in life, makes me laugh.
Murray Rothbard on sports.
"Of all areas of life, sports should be the arena least touched by politics. For the glory of being a sports fan is precisely that we are engaging in fun and play, that we are permitted to be 'irrational'; that is, to be Yankee or Mets fans, to love our team and to hate the enemy, without having to ground these passions in systematic, moral or metaphysical theory. So it is particularity obnoxious when the gaggle of left Puritans invades and takes over the field of sports. Which they have done, of course, with a vengeance.
The Hate Thought squad has run rampant in sports for years. Veteran and respected sports figures, such as Al Campaneris and Jimmy the Greek, have seen their careers destroyed because they gave one politically improper answer to an interviewer's question. No one dares even explore whether or not the answers were correct; their very expression is a hate-thought-crime; unlike other, seemingly graver, crimes, from their punishment there is no reprieve.
I like to think that sports writers are above politics' that sports and only sports fill their minds. But now, they too have succumbed, and are, in fact, viciously leftist whenever politics is deemed relevant to sports."
The Irrepresible Rothbard pdf.
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Devin Stevens's Yugioh-Bernie Sanders mashup.
An Amateur's Thoughts on "America"
Americans don't care about the world or world history because we've already done, in 200 years, what it took millennia for the rest of the world to start doing, and they still haven't even caught up yet.
I'm only half joking.
Why was America known as the "Land of Opportunity"? Why is America known as such a "melting pot"? What other countries were known as "melting pots"? I'm sure there has had to have been others. How much of the rest of the world was a "melting pot", and who made up the "ingredients"? How "diverse" were they? I don't believe that America is known as a "melting pot" simply because we scream it louder so that people believe it. There has to be some truth to it. People have come here from all over the world: the question is: why? War-mongering politicians have corrupted the phrase "American exceptionalism". They have hijacked it and perverted it. But there's some truth to the idea of "American exceptionalism". There's truth to the phrase "greatest country in the world". America is a product of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. Historically speaking, they occurred right after the other. This has bode exceptionally well for us Americans.
There's certainly a significant stain across American history, mainly in the form of slavery. Also, of course, "Native Americans" are described as "Natives" for a reason. But I have a feeling I'm missing out significant information regarding the mix between Europeans and Native Americans. Something tells me my government education has left very significant facts out of the picture. I'm skeptical of the common account of "history".
But the Industrial Revolution occurred very early on in America's history (when you compare the histories of other nations, and how long it took for them to undergo an "Industrial Revolution"). The impact of the Industrial Revolution cannot be understated. This combination of the rebellious "Enlightenment" coupled with the Industrial Revolution has created a sense of superiority within Americans. Honestly……….considering these two factors, it's justified. Of course, America's flaws should be pointed out, past or present. But us Americans know why we feel superior to the rest of the world. It is because we were fucking lucky. We've had it better than everyone else before us. We're happy about that fact. Our history is one of rebelliousness, particularly of government, and of capitalism. This was, for all intents and purposes, our birth. We didn't have centuries of history before this. Granted, we can look at those people that moved here, and trace their histories back to countries with rich histories. But we identify as Americans. The world sucked for a very long time, and we got extremely lucky. Our life was one of extreme fortune. For us, America is truly when history starts.
I should do more research on the Enlightenment thinkers and the historical capitalists that have made America what it is today: where they were from, etc. Something beyond the superficial "history" that I learned in school.
The "world" is a whole nother matter entirely.
The point is that world history is a complicated subject.
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While these nails are inspired by the slopes, they're perfect beyond the mountain — you can wear them anytime, anywhere, and with anything since they're pretty neutral.
Nail artist Simcha Whitehill aka Miss Pop shows and tells Cosmo exactly how to copy this ski slope-inspired mani.
1. Prep and paint. "After you've filed your nails into the desired shape, pushed back your cuticles" — remember, DO NOT CUT THEM! — "and applied a basecoat, paint your nails with two coats of rose gold polish with subtle shimmer," says Whitehill. Try Orly Nail Polish in Rage.
2. Paint within the paint. "Imagine your nail a smidgen smaller and, starting a little bit higher up on your nail from where the rose gold polish was painted, swipe a coat of charcoal polish over the rest of your nail, leaving a rim of rose gold at the base and sides," she says. Use a lacquer like Deborah Lippmann's in Stormy Weather.
3. Frame your fingertip. "Using a striper brush and the rose gold polish that you used in step one, add a thin french tip onto the tip of your nail," says Whitehill. "This should create a perfect golden frame around it."
4. Paint on a pyramid. "Using the striper brush again, clean the tip off with nail polish remover before you dip it into silver polish," she says. "Then, draw a triangle onto the center of the charcoal polish's base," she says. Try China Glaze Nail Polish in Silver.
Voil! More nail art you'll want to 1.) flaunt in front of your friends and 2.) Instagram the hell out of (obviously).
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Meet the Medicare Fraud-Fighters
By Lisa McElroy , November 12, 2013 02:18 PM
For many older Americans, Medicare has been a life-saver - literally. And, over its 47-year-old history, the government health care initiative has allowed countless more Americans to lived longer and healthier lives.
That's the good news.
The not-so-good? Some doctors, pharmacies and other providers try to steal from Medicare by overbilling or submitting fraudulent charges for reimbursement.
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That's where the Medicare Fraud Strike Force (don't you just love that name?) comes in.
A spokesperson for the Justice Department told me that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has made fighting Medicare fraud a high priority. As a result, the department has a steady stream of cases.
In fact, since its inception in March 2007, the strike force - now operating in nine cities across the country - has gone after more than 1,500 defendants for fraudulently billing Medicare a total of more than $5 billion.
And there's undoubtedly more to be saved.
In May, the strike force announced a "nationwide takedown" that resulted in federal charges against 89 people, including doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals, for fraudulently billing Medicare a total of about $223 million. "Over the last three fiscal years," Holder pointed out at the time, "for every dollar we've spent fighting against health-care fraud, we've returned an average of nearly eight dollars to the U.S. Treasury, the Medicare Trust Fund and others." Even better, he pointed out that the savings aren't in recovered dollars alone, because the strike force's actions have deterred other would-be criminals from even attempting to defraud Medicare.
Just last week, Detroit-area resident Javed Rehman was sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring to bill Medicare for home health services that were never provided. Companies that Rehman and his co-conspirators owned collected approximately $13.8 million from Medicare, including $1.7 million that went to the company that Rehman owned. He'll have to pay all of it back in restitution.
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The same day, the owner of a Detroit-area home health care agency was sentenced to serve 65 months in prison for her leading role in a $2.2 million Medicare fraud scheme. Mehran Javidan was convicted of committing health care fraud, making false statements and conspiracy. Like Rehman, she'll have to pay restitution - in her case, about $2 million.
The Medicare Fraud Strike Force strikes again.
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The results of the Interactive Fiction competition 2011 are in. Kerkerkruip took a very respectable 8th place out of 38 games, which was almost exactly what I expected. What I didn't expect, at all, was having such a low standard deviation! Either fewer people than I expected hate roguelikes, or people were impressed enough by the technical aspects of the game to ignore their dislike of the genre.
Participating in the IF Comp was a very good idea. Kerkerkruip has now been played by many more people than I would have otherwise reached. That is not just something to caress my ego, as we say in Dutch, and not just a way to get more feedback either, though it is that. What I hope is that Kerkerkruip will become something of a standard example of randomised combat and tactical gameplay in IF. Not in the sense of "the standard", but in the sense of "one of the ways you can do it, and a game you should take a look at if you want to attempt something in that direction". New authors wanting to write a combat game appear surprisingly often, and until now there weren't many clear examples you could point them to.
What about the future Kerkerkruip? I intend to keep this project alive. Knowing myself, that means I will work on it like mad for two weeks and then forget about it for three months, but that is fine. Kerkerkruip is the kind of game you can keep improving and extending. It is the project I can turn to whenever the urge to make something really game-like overcomes me. (May it be the project I can turn to whenever the urge to buy and play Diablo 3 threatens to overcome me!)
I have set up a Mantis bug tracker for Kerkerkruip, so if you are interested in seeing what I've been doing -- or interested in reporting bugs in that way, though email is probably better -- you can check it out. The bug tracker does contain spoilers, of course.
The comp was a lot of fun, the authors' forum was great, the reception of my game was as good as I hoped; in other words, I'm happy with it all. Thanks to everyone who made this event happen! And congratulations to my fellow authors!


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Selfie windfall for cancer charity
A cancer charity has seen a surge of donations after an online campaign to try and raise awareness of breast cancer has gripped social media.
Women have been posting "bare-faced" selfies of themselves - a picture of them wearing no make up - on social media sites and nominating their friends to do the same.
Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have seen soaring numbers of women posing for snaps wearing no make-up.
The women taking part have also been donating a few pounds to Cancer Research UK.
The charity, which did not even start the campaign, said that it had seen a "a large increase in the volume of donations since yesterday".
Carolan Davidge, director of communications at Cancer Research UK said, "The #nomakeupselfie Twitter trend isn't something Cancer Research UK started - but it's great to see so many people getting involved to help raise awareness of cancer amongst their friends and family.
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The charity said it was still looking into the exact rise in the number of donations but said there had been an "unprecedented" number of text donations throughout the day.
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As President Holds Immigration Rally, Rubio Sells Senate Version to Conservatives
President Barack Obama began rallying supporters Tuesday to back his immigration-overhaul plan, while Republican Sen. Marco Rubio worked to persuade conservatives in his party to support a similar bipartisan plan that has gained momentum in the Senate.
Mr. Obama told supporters in Las Vegas that he was encouraged by the set of principles released Monday by eight senators. "For the first time in many years, Republicans and Democrats seem ready to tackle this problem together," he said....


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MILAN - It was a naughty little show, but quite a relief from the Goth fashion prevalent on the current Milan runway.
The mood at the Emilio Pucci show for next fall "is playful and unapologetically optimistic," Norwegian designer Peter Dundas said in the notes for the collection presented Saturday in a downtown Milan palazzo.
The "Pucci Girl" is carefree, glamorous and sassy.
She likes hot pants, miniskirts and thigh-high boots that cling like a second skin. She's not satisfied with just a mink jacket. It has to be fabulously pink and puffy.
For evening she decorates her shorts and matching top with glittery sequins, and switches to stiletto pumps, baring her legs.
Much of the collection's night wear is a flirtatious combination of sheer fabrics, prints and embroidery. The Midas touch comes in tunic dresses and gowns held together by myriad gilded beads.
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He was a first-round loser in his last four Grand Slam events prior to this fortnight. Federers record streak of reaching 36 consecutive Grand Slam quarterfinals came to an end. This was his earliest exit at a Grand Slam since a first-round loss at the 2003 French Open. The amazing Federer hadnt lost to a player outside the top 100 since 2005 (Richard Gasquet) and this was the earliest exit by a defending champion at Wimbledon since Lleyton Hewitt lost in the opening round in 2003. The 17-time Grand Slam king Federer beat Andy Murray in last years Wimbledon finale to tie Pete Sampras for the most mens titles here in the Open Era. Meanwhile, the heavy British crowd favorite Murray eased into the third round, while no less than five men succumbed to injuries on Day 3, including sixth-seeded French star Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. The second-seeded Murray managed to avoid the Day-3 carnage with a 6-3, 6-3, 7-5 handling of overmatched Taiwanese Yen-Hsun Lu on Court 1. 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Also on Wednesday, Serb Viktor Troicki topped Russian Andrey Kuznetsov 6-4, 6-3, 6-4, Austrian southpaw Jurgen Melzer downed German Julian Reister 3-6, 7-6 (7-2), 7-6 (7-5), 6-2, and German Dustin Brown doused the 2002 Wimbledon champ and former world No. 1 Hewitt 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (3-7), 6-2. "I cried like a little girl," Brown said after beating the two-time major champion Hewitt. The second round is scheduled to conclude on Thursday, including a match for the reigning Aussie Open champion and 2011 Wimbledon titlist Djokovic, who will take on American journeyman Bobby Reynolds. Other top-10 seeds on the Day-4 slate are No. 4 French Open runner-up David Ferrer, No. 7 2010 Wimbledon runner-up Tomas Berdych, No. 8 former U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro, and No. 9 Frenchman Richard Gasquet. Milos Raonic of Thornhill, Ont., and Jesse Levine of Ottawa won their first-round matches earlier this week. Raonic next faces Igor Sijsling of the Netherlands, while Levine battles Argentinian Juan Martin del Potro. Levines match can be seen live on TSN.ca on Friday morning at approximetly 8am et/5am pt. Watch exclusive bonus online coverage throughout the competition on TSN.ca, including full coverage of select matches not being televised. ' ' '


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BMW 6-Series Cars With Specification And Prices With Reviews and ImagesPosted by tattoos at 9:57 PM
Upcoming BMW 6-Series Cars With Specification And Prices With Reviews and Images
The 2008 6 Series is a 2-door, 4-passenger luxury sports car, or convertible sports car, available in two trims, the 650i Coupe and the 650i Convertible.
Upon introduction, the 650i Coupe is equipped with a standard 4.8-liter, V8, 360-horsepower engine that achieves 15-mpg in the city and 22-mpg on the highway. The 650i Convertible is equipped with a standard 4.8-liter, V8, 360-horsepower engine that achieves 14-mpg in the city and 21-mpg on the highway. A 6-speed manual transmission with overdrive is standard on both trims, and a 6-speed automatic transmission with overdrive is optional.The launch of the new BMW 6 Series Coupe and Convertible this weekend (7 October) marks the latest in a long line of BMW products revealed in 2007 featuring BMW EfficientDynamics
BMW 6-Series Cars Engine & Performance
The standard engine to the BMW 6 Series model is a 4.8 liter V8 model that can deliver power up to 360 hp and the engine can be paired to either manual or to an automated transmission.
The BMW 6 series model is equipped with the features like keyless entry system, auto climate control air conditioning, navigation system, power locks, seat memory, cruise control, dual zone front air conditioning, power windows, power driver seat, trip computer,
The new BMW 6 Series range features a host of innovations designed to increase performance, improve fuel consumption and reduce emissions. The BMW 635d is joined in the range by the 630i and 650i, offered in both Coupe and Convertible bodystyles. The six-cylinder magnesium and aluminum engine in the 272hp 630i now features new lean burn technology in the guise of high precision direct injection and double-VANOS variable valve technology.The BMW 650i Coupe and Convertible models crown the range and are powered by a 4,799cc V8 engine providing an output of 367hp. The 650i with its aluminum engine and double-VANOS and VALVETRONIC variable valve technology is capable of reaching 62mph in 5.1 seconds in the Coupe and 5.5 seconds in the Convertible.
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For security purposes each employee can access the system with either a password or with an employee card, with the addition of a card reader
* Employee permissions determine which functions each employee can or can't do
* Protect sensitive information
* Keep employees from stealing your hard earned dollars
You won't have to add it up manually anymore. Reports will tell overtime, labor hours, gross pay, and even keep track of tips if you would like.
* Multiple Job Codes may be set up for each employee.
* When the employee clocks in, they will be able to select which job they are working during that shift.
* Employees may only select to work job codes assigned to them. For example, if Bob only has job codes CASHIER and JANITOR assigned to him, he may not log in as a COOK.
* Layout your restaurant exactly the way it looks.
* Skip this option for Fast food restaurants.
Fully automate your inventory tracking, the smarter way!
Example... You sell a happy meal. When you do, the system takes out of your inventory the burger, bun, cheese, ketchup, pickle, fries, soda, cup, lid, box, and the happy meal toy. You have a reorder level of 25 burger patties, and you are now down to 24. You go to the purchase order screen and the system will create a purchase order for your burger supplier with all of the items that you receive from them that are below the reorder level. Use the inventory system if you would like, or keep track the old fashioned way, or use a bit of both systems. Aldelo will work with you.
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Are you running an ethnic restaurant, and have staff that don't speak 100% English? Not located within the United States, and need to display the software interfaces with a language other than English? No problem! Aldelo For Restaurants is 100% multi-lingual, and it will show the screen interfaces in your staff's preferred language. Aldelo For Restaurants currently supports 100% multi-lingual operation at POS & Back Office with English, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese. What's more, Aldelo For Restaurants can also be configured so that it will send the order to the kitchen or bar in a different language than the guest receipt! There is also default global language setting and follow me language display technology to further enhance multilingual operation. Additionally, our software solution is also internationalized. It is able to handle your regional specific currency symbols, date and time formats, decimal symbols, and others.
With Aldelo For Restaurants software solution's operation simplicity and ease of use, your employee high turnover rate will be a concern of the past! Aldelo For Restaurants software solution allows you to train your new employees faster with less time and money spent. With 100% touch screen operated point of sales, super easy to follow screen layouts, and the simplicity of Windows based interface, your wait staff will be able to use the software in a matter of minutes, rather than days! Best of all, there is no prior computer knowledge required from your wait staff. And of course, our software does not use those awkward product codes, so your staff is not required to memorize them. A big time saver over those older POS systems that do require you to memorize them!
Your Total POS & Management Solution
Whether your current restaurant system is paper based or another POS software solution, Aldelo For Restaurants software is the ideal software to replace your current system, and give you much better control and efficiency! Aldelo For Restaurants software solution will save you both time and money by improving your restaurant operations. If you have ever been serious about increasing your restaurant's efficiency & profitability, then seriously consider using Aldelo For Restaurants software solution for your establishment. Aldelo For Restaurants software is state of the art Windows based touch operated restaurant solution. It is affordable, easy to use, feature rich, 100% touch operated point of sales, and 100% multi-lingual. Aldelo For Restaurants is the only restaurant software solution that you will need for now and for the future!
* Basic Point of Sale Features
* Numerous features & capabilities to save you time & money
* Remote kitchen & bar printer support
* Up to 6 kitchen department & 1 bar department
* Remote order packaging printer support
* Better coordination for your carry out packager when you have volume carry out business
* Touch Screen Based Order Entry
* Designed especially for touch screen & light pen operations
* Ability to scan UPC barcode information in our special Barcode Order Entry screen. It's fast & easy
* Dine In Order Type Support
* Table selection & guest count tracking now is easier than ever
* Visual Table Layout Support
* Ability to let you design your on screen table layout similar to your physical layout. Layout is provided on a 7 by 9 button grid, with unused table buttons invisible
* View your occupied table, need to clear table, available table, table served time, and other information directly from table layout screen. You can also define table attributes such as near windows, smoking section, private seating, booth, maximum seating capacity, hibachi table, and more.
* Open & assign new order to a specific server without know that server's access code. Plus auto-refreshing table layout so that hostess will get an accurate picture of the dining room status
* Flexible Menu Item Pricing Support
* Allow you to specify different menu item prices for each of the order types. For example, your New York Steak for dine in may be $10.00, while take out is $11.00, and delivery could be defined as $15.00
* Super Easy To Use Pizza Builder Screen
* We make the complex ordering of pizza much easier
* You can specify crust type & toppings
* You can have different topping prices per pizza size
* You can have proportioned pizza topping prices
* You can have whole, halves, thirds, or fourths of pizza topping specification
* You can do Double or Triple of pizza toppings
* Popup Forced Modifier Screens
* Up to seven layers of forced modifers automatically pops up when the menu item is touched
* Your complex menu item ordering is now easier than ever
* One Touch Order Split & Combine
* Visual order split & combine for easier operation
* Direct Recall of Another Open Order From within Order Entry Screen
* Especially helpful for fast food restaurants
* You can recall an open order directly from within the order entry screen. Any changes to the current order is saved but not sent to the kitchen or bar
* This capability allows you to switch between different orders on the fly
* Bar Tab Order Type Support
* Take Out Order Type Support
* One Touch Order Duplication
* Delayed Send Order Notification
* Option to automatically send the on hold order or item to the kitchen or bar when the predefined "Hold Until Time" arrives
* Option to immediately send the on hold order or item to the kitchen or bar with the due time specified on the receipt
* Order, Item, & Cash Discounts Capability
* Discount by order, by item, and by cash amount. Our discounts are flexible enough to meet your business requirements
* Drive Thru Order Type Support
* One click access to order entry screen or simply choose to stay within the order entry screen at all times
* Drive Thru Completion Timing
* Delivery Order Type Support
* Advanced delivery tracking & dispatching starts here
* Review delivery destination remarks, address, and more
* Delivery Map Code Lookup Support
* Easily find out the map code of your destination (Requires map code data entry)
* Delivery Visual Map Display Interface
* See the visual map with the click of a button (Requires Microsoft Mappoint or Streets & Trips 2001 software)
* Delivery Driver Departure & Arrival Tracking
* Complete control over your delivery driver dispatching
* Find out how long the driver has gone with the delivery
* Delivery Driver Money Drop Support
* Pay all of the driver's arrived orders in one shot to either his/her staff bank or the cashier
* No longer will the driver need to pay each order individually
* Delivery Driver Timing Support
* Track how long your driver is taking per delivery trip
* Complete control over your frequent diner reward program
* Specify frequent diner points expiration days
* Support for Magnetic Swipe Card
* In House Charge Account Program
* Complete control over your in house charge account program
* Ability to specify "Due Upon Receipt" if you do not wish to assign a specific due date
* Ability to specify account maximum charge limit and expiration date
* Support for Magnetic Swipe Card
* Bad Check Tracking Support
* Prevent recurring bad checks at your restaurant
* Verify bad check by account number and driver license number
* Employee Time Card Tracking Support
* Better employee time card control to save you money
* Enforce employee clock in with easy to use scheduling functionality
* Popup clock out reminder
* Employee Staff (Server) Bank Support
* Allow each employee be their own cashier, then turn all their money owed to the restaurant at the end of their shift
* Easy to read shift end report
* All money collected by the employee are accounted for
* Internal Email Communicator Support
* Better collaboration tool for use between your staff
* Send notes to all or specific fellow employees
* Reduces your paper trail
* Gift Certificate Management
* Complete control over your gift certificate & gift card management needs
* Magnetic Swipe Card recognition to support gift cards
* Automatic tracking of remaining balance
* Central Gift Certificate issuing, tracking, & redemption ready (Requires the Aldelo Central Gift Certificate Server)
* Video Surveillance Snapshot Support
* Monitor your critical activities such as refund, no sale, access denied, and others
* Takes snapshot picture of the triggered event and store it for you for later review
* Works with any inexpensive WebCAM camera (If it works with MS Netmeeting, then it should work with our software)
* Cash Register Functionalities
* Track your money trail with accountability
* Know which cashier is short and over
* Refunds, Voids, Pay Outs, & Manager Cash Outs
* Full suite of functionalities to complement your cash register operations
* Runs on Windows 98SE, W2K, XP
* 100% Touch Screen Operated Point of Sales
* Super easy to use screen layouts
* Your wait staff do not need prior computer knowledge
* Open Database Architecture
* Based on the popular Microsoft Jet 3.51 Database Engine
* Ability to create your own custom reports with external reporting software such as Crystal Reports (Separate Programming Required)
* Database is compatible with Microsoft Access 97
* Peer To Peer Windows Networking Support
* Saves you the cost of expensive dedicated database server and the server operating system
* Easy to setup and maintain
* Advanced Caller ID Interface
* You can see the caller information and last order before you even pickup the telephone
* Advanced support with YES-TELE caller ID box that will support up to 8 caller ID telephone lines. Giving you up to 8 line caller ID monitoring from each of the computers.
* For single line caller ID monitoring, we also support the popular US Robotics Internal 56K Caller ID Capable WinModem
* Support For Various Point of Sale Peripherals
* Various Point of Sale Printers
* Various Touch Screen Monitors & LCDs
* Various Keyboard Interface Barcode Scanners
* Various Keyboard Interface MSR/MICR Readers
* 30 Days of Free Telephone and Email Support
* Helping you getting started fast
* Basic Back Office Features
* Easy to use Back Office setup, activities, and maintenance screens
* Numerous capabilities to let you get started fast
* Compact database support directly from software
* Backup database support directly from software
* Third party software links accessed directly from the back office
* Easy to use data source selection
* Automatic database repair capability
* Ability to export any 8x11 reports to ASCII Tab Delimited Text File format, and can be opened by MS Excel spreadsheet program for further processing
* Separate free utility (Aldelo Database Manager Utility) to allow you to purge test orders from the live database and reindex the order sequence afterwards. Allowing you to have accurate database information at any time. You will no longer need to worry about accidently training your new employee on your live database, and wonder what to do with those training orders
* Inventory Management Support
* Physical inventory count capability
* Menu item recipe definition
* Inventory depletion based on sales
* Inventory shopping list triggered by inventory level falling below pre-defined threshold
* Inventory usage forecast capability
* Inventory usage versus food sales report
* Inventory depletion details report
* Inventory recipe & profitablity review report
* Other inventory & food costing report
* Monitor inventory level capability
* Create, review, & edit purchase orders
* Track historical inventory purchase cost when using purchase orders
* Define inventory items with UPC barcode association
* Download inventory scan file to the software
* And many other related inventory capabilities
* Employee Payroll Preparation Report
* Speed up your payroll process with our payroll preparation report, it calculates all your important payroll information, except the payroll taxes of course!
* Calculates regular hours and over time hours
* Spend less time doing payroll now
* Numerous reports to present your overall restaurant operation results
* Know more about your restaurant and be more competitive
* Know what menu item is selling & what is not
* Ability to use Crystal Reports software to generate your own custom reports (Requires Crystal Reports software separately, and a little database knowledge!)
* 100% Multilingual POS & Back Office Screen Interface
* Supports English, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, & Simplified Chinese
* All screen interfaces from the POS to the Back Office could show in any of the supported languages (Some system level message boxes may show in English)
* Auto language switching technolgy, all supported languages are inclusive in the same software product
* Runs on 32-Bit English Windows with Chinese Environment Software (For Chinese Language Display On English Windows)
* Runs on 32-Bit Localized Versions of Simplified and Traditional Windows operating systems
* Primary & secondary menu item & menu modifier names, allowing you to configure your kitchen/bar copy as flexible as you like for multilingual kitchen departments
* Extra large font printing support for kitchen/bar copies
* Allow you to enter any foreign language menu item names in our software
* Custom Selection of Display Font Name & Characterset Per Language
* Allow you to specify your choice of font for your specific language
* Follow Me Language Display Technology
* Your preferred language follows you
* View the screen interface in language of your choice automatically (Supported Language Only)
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I got through two episodes yesterday while I was nursing a cold and in the episode "The Best Burger in New York", Barney (played by Neil Patrick Harris) pimps out Goliath National Bank (a fictional bank that his company purchased) while a jobless Marshall (played by Jason Segel) searches for the mystical best burger in New York. I thought I'd look up some How I met Your Mother tees and lo and behold, I find this tee from 80's Tees, a Goliath National Bank shirt. Barney Stinson would be proud.
Are any of  you How I Met Your Mother fans? Let me know!