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Whoops, meant to post on the video page! Check there.In reply to this comment by residue:
>> ^Nickerd:

Was that a Jesus cross on the mirror? How Christian of them.


thanks for reminding me why I stopped reading user comments on the sift

I think you're probably right—though the same could be said of any shitty job, couldn't it? (And there are *lots* of shitty jobs out there.)

It makes me wonder how long it'll be before companies start buying up landfills in America (on the cheap) to turn a profit on whatever they might salvage. I think it'll definitely happen at some point, probably when we realize we've been throwing away some commodity that's less renewable (and more valuable) than we'd thought.

And thank you!>> ^kymbos:

Interesting vid, but I think you'll find those people are willing to do those tasks because of a lack of alternatives. They weren't giving up jobs as doctors and lawyers to pick through garbage as a profession, for chrissakes.
And what's wrong with wanting to be saparated from our waste? Of course we don't want to be living in filth.
You've got some interesting vids, @aurens. Thanks.

There's a badass interview with William Gibson over at The Paris Review, in case you haven't already seen it.>> ^Deadrisenmortal:

The first time that I ever heard of the term cool hunting or a cool hunter was in the William Gibson book Pattern Recognition written in 2001-2002. Regardless of any proof otherwise I am going to continue to believe that, just as he termed the phrase "cyberspace" and in essence predicted the prevalence of the internet in society, that he also invented the term cool hunting.
=) You go WG!
>> ^PHJF:
Obviously using "cool" in the hipster sense of the word.

What's funny to me is that the "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ads are exactly the kind of "my air soles are better than yours" advertising that he bashes at the beginning.

It's funny you should pick out Gandhi and Lennon. Steve Jobs took an influential trip to India in 1974 (one which affected his life outlook in lots of ways, and one for which Gandhi, I would imagine, serves as an emblematic figure), and he was a big fan of The Beatles, both musically and organizationally: "My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other's negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts."

I totally dig your point, generally applied; lots of ads strike me as disingenuous and (emotionally) opportunistic. I like this particular ad, though. To me it comes off, at least in part, as more of a personal (and genuine) homage to some of the people who inspired Steve Jobs at various points in his life.>> ^kymbos:

This captures beautifully what fills me with fear and loathing for people who invest their lives in marketing. Fucking Ghandi, brought to you by Apple? It makes me sick to my stomach, the gall of it. John Lennon, for fuck's sakes. Have you no shame?
And yet I know how many clever, intelligent, morally bewildering people spend their lives trying to make me feel something for companies, and probably succeed against my best intentions.

That's it. I'm retiring.

Speaking of shame ...

So how does this work? Can I say *quality?

*Promote the triumph (and the shame).

Cool. (But I think she meant Whitman.)

That knave almost landed on His apse.

Funny: I don't find it at all hard to argue with the results. It was billions of years of biological evolution—particularly the development of coping mechanisms for acute stresses—that saved Captain Udell, not his appeal to the (presumably) Christian god. (Surely I don't need to explain the difference between correlation and causation, do I?) And yes, if he really did pause to pray, then his religious impulse was self-defeating: it delayed the instinctual biological responses that eventually saved his life.

The difference between me and the Westboro Baptist Church—I'll spell it out—is in intention, delivery, and degree. Of course, your criticism lost all its punch as soon as you went off the deep end in equating me with those crazies.

I learned from the Hitch, thankfully, to be weary of people like you, people who want to chastise—or, worse, forbid—the criticism of religion on the grounds that it's unacceptably irreverent. Well, goddamn right its irreverent (in the etymological sense); that's the point.>> ^Asmo:
Both are insensitive and intolerant towards people who have not offered any overt offense. Both are self justified and self righteous. I don't see much of a difference, even if you pan it off as humour.
Besides, the humour would have been closer to the target if the guy had actually died from his "self-defeating religious impulses". As it stands, he lived versus incredible odds in spite of taking time for prayer. Kinda hard to argue with the results in this case... X D