>> ^berticus:
He's surpassing me already!?

only because you sift a clip a week, goob.

This is what I get for introducing him to the sift! Congratulations my friend.

kia ora. domo arigato. and keep seeding the ghostly.
got a sift coming with your name on it, too.

>> ^dag:
It seems like 15 minutes - your rise to goldum. Good work - and thanks.

right back atcha'. thanks for my corner, of your sandbox. i promise to play nice.

>> ^kronosposeidon:
Here are your 15 minutes, my15minutes. Enjoy them. I'm so glad you chose this path to fame rather than becoming a serial killer.

don't think i wasn't tempted. fucker.

>> ^MarineGunrock:
An early 'grats post, eh? Good work, man!

as you were, gunny. carry on, sir.

>> ^JAPR:
Congrats dude, get those last few through, and an early "welcome to the club."

which should be occurring while i am writing this post, i reckon. thx for the tunes.

>> ^gorgonheap:
Hey I am not going to congratulate him! Seriously he had his 15 minutes, I'm not letting him have another 15! *jerk
(no really congradulations!)

spelled with a 't'. *putz
(no really, it is! look it up.) (hehe! thx, heap!)

>> ^Thylan:
Grats

hard out here, for a pimp.

>> ^rottenseed:
you're still submitting videos?

yeah. but don't feel bad. you're not the only person who didn't notice.

I thought you just creeped around upvoting and adding your two cents in on every video/sifttalk

and you forgot blogs. but at the current exchange rate, it's not even two cents.

>>^Fjnbk:
We can give him 14 minutes. Congratulations, and I lost the game.

betting on the cowboys?

>> ^CaptWillard:
Thanks for sticking around longer than 15 minutes.

thanks for encouraging me to!

>> ^deedub81:
I'll spare you anymore puns about your screen name.
Congratulations.

best comment on the page, dub!

An early 'grats post, eh?
Good work, man!

Talk about pulling at some heart-strings. I once worked a job where I wasn't compensated correctly for overtime, the difference was only about $3.5 CDN over 20 days and I still made $2000 that month, I was just devastated that a business owner would have the audacity to do such a thing. I wouldn't have lasted one day in that factory. Humans are not designed to exclusively work. 20 hours of working is not good for a person. China is obviously different, how can he compete paying his staff the legal required amount? He can't.

The crux of the issue: Who can we blame and what can be done?

We need to take a serious look at ourselves as consumers. I once took a serious look at buying some clothing from a local clothing store where everything was made in house, I abandoned the idea and justified my consumer choice by price. What I need to do as a consumer is keep myself informed about what I am buying and who I am buying it from.

I think that the factories customers (Namely the french guy) need to put themselves in the factories employees shoes. They don't work as long or as hard as the factory labour does, and I'm willing to bet they make more money (in whatever currency).

The factory owner in the beginning of the documentary struck me as a honest hard-working man who would like to abide by the law but can't realistically compete. My view changed as the documentary progressed. He drives a Mercedes for petes sake. It might not be the best comparison, but from what I can tell, a 5 series BMW in China costs about 598000 yuan. So if we are to conservatively that the owner had 500000 disposable yuan to buy his car, he either worked for ~208 years (by my math) or takes a considerably larger paycheck than the rest of his employees. My boss makes more than me, but not that much more.

Last paragraph, I promise. That french guy is an idiot. The restaurant is representative of the factory? You sure about that? As a reasonable human being with a basic moral standing, I would rather eat in a freaking cardboard box if it means the employees being payed more. I heard an analogy not too long ago of a teacher putting his face in the mud so that his student could rise above him. To me it seems the corporate officials in this story are stacking cheap labour in order to raise themselves up, corporately, morally, and socially dispicible in my opinion.

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I almost want to attribute John Stewart's fumbling questions to the Ron Paul Effect. He was even stating his questions from a populist perspective, eg, "These stock market guys with bigger houses are shooting craps and the working man is working"...

I wonder if he understood Greenspan's closing point: that the Fed moderates the occasional stupid panic and the occasional stupid greed of humanity. It chops off the outlying emotion-informed surges to smooth the surface of the economy, inasmuch as is possible.

Stewart sounded so naive about what "free market" means! I love the man, but wow, I guess the politically-partisan culture he's surrounded with isn't interested in some of the central political questions of our time. Perhaps the Ron Paul Effect will contribute to remedying that. Greenspan was talking about (the emotionality of) people not improving (or "stabilizing"); no need to be "bummed out" when we can improve our discernment in so many other ways.

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don't feel so bad choggie... not only do you not count and are a terrible writer... but apparently one typo has relegated me to the ranks of the ignorant who do not understand apostrophes... well, before I unleash a tirade on that matter which rivals any of the religious flame wars I'm going to duck out...

take note though jwray... correcting a librarian on grammatical issues is never smart... its a pride issue and you've incurred some wrath buddy... do it again and I will personally proofread every mutherluvin' comment you make... you've been warned!!

anyway... my two cents on some things: comment voting- booo! censorship- even more booo! more collectives like Islamica that try to deal with religion in an objective fashion- yaaaay!

And gwaan, keep up the good work man, clearly there are many in the western world who need to better understand your chosen faith.

Excellent work man! Very good editing and mashup.

I brought toys for tots to my Christmas party at work... man, we didn't get to jump off anything higher than the second floor.

And that was only if you had a few too many drinks... fair to tag this with *music fo SoaD.

6 or 7 years? We need election cycle returns! I am with you, James.

But all your leet babble about new growth sectors leads me to believe that you are not a friend of a friend of the working man. Kind of like these guys.