I disagree completely. Labling him a criminal before a trial is perhaps a little premature - whether or not he broke the law is the question that should be asked at the trial...only it seems that the answer would likely be yes because his whistle blower status, or lack thereof, sure as hell isnt going to protect him.

I'm not sure why supporters of what he did would demand he martyr himself further. Do you really put so much trust in the justice system? You saw what they did to Manning. You think that is justice? How selfish of him to want to avoid that same fate rite? If it was me I would sacrifice myself to their little ritual in a flash and then sit in a cell for god knows how long hoping that the American people can pull themselves away from MTV and fastfood long enough to give a fuck about me. Lol nop. US citizens don't seem to need a trial to decide his guilt or not. Is anybody actually thinking to themselves "gee, I wonder if that snowdon guy had a point. Too bad I won't know until he hands himself in!". No, everybody made up their minds long ago and I don't think I need him to publically crucified to get mad as hell.

I don't see where teaching kids basic food facts would be a bad thing. Likewise showing them the results of bad choices as in Supersize Me or the book Fastfood Nation.
All insults to bad parents aside, problems also arise when big business/lobby groups want to get involved in what gets taught to our kids.

A little bit extreme but funny link by the way!

>> ^hpqp:

Stupid kids grow up to be stupid parents and have lots of stupid kids who grow up to be stupid parents and (et cetera ad nauseum)... at some point someone has to step in. I for one am all for mandatory school viewings of "Supersize Me" as early as preschool. If kids are going to be brought to poison outlets by their fat, lazy-ass and empty-headed parents, at least let them know what their in for.
Remember this?

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Not evil, no. Just driven by a voracious invisible hand that cares not for me and thee.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Haha. Rural businesses are evil. They kill people for the lulz.

In reply to this comment by dag:
Thanks for the link. I think the most important part of the article is this:

Imagine an actual for profit fire company. Would they really do this? Would they really turn down a higher fee and risk the bad press of being the compnay that sat there while a familty home burned?

My answer to that is, yes - probably, they would. Because a rural area only has the population density to support a single private fire department. It's them or nothing. And letting the house burn down sends a heck of a message to other potential subscribers.

With a defacto monopoly on a service for the common good, a private business will do whatever increases subscribers and profits the most.

Where Time-Warner is the only broadband provider, they will raise prices to the sweet spot, just under where people will actually drop their subscription - and fight tooth and nail against anything that undermines their monopoly.

The same mindless devotion to profit would apply to a privatized fire department. Keep your money-grubbing corporations out of my community services please! This includes things like fastfood companies sponsoring my kids text books.

some things, BlankFist, are just not solved by a free-market. I hope someday you'll moderate your political views to the shades of gray that represent a non-black-and-white reality.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
You asked a while back, and I feel this guy did a decent job of answering it.

http://theemptiness.info/2010/10/burning-down-the-house/

Haha. Rural businesses are evil. They kill people for the lulz.

In reply to this comment by dag:
Thanks for the link. I think the most important part of the article is this:

Imagine an actual for profit fire company. Would they really do this? Would they really turn down a higher fee and risk the bad press of being the compnay that sat there while a familty home burned?

My answer to that is, yes - probably, they would. Because a rural area only has the population density to support a single private fire department. It's them or nothing. And letting the house burn down sends a heck of a message to other potential subscribers.

With a defacto monopoly on a service for the common good, a private business will do whatever increases subscribers and profits the most.

Where Time-Warner is the only broadband provider, they will raise prices to the sweet spot, just under where people will actually drop their subscription - and fight tooth and nail against anything that undermines their monopoly.

The same mindless devotion to profit would apply to a privatized fire department. Keep your money-grubbing corporations out of my community services please! This includes things like fastfood companies sponsoring my kids text books.

some things, BlankFist, are just not solved by a free-market. I hope someday you'll moderate your political views to the shades of gray that represent a non-black-and-white reality.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
You asked a while back, and I feel this guy did a decent job of answering it.

http://theemptiness.info/2010/10/burning-down-the-house/

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Thanks for the link. I think the most important part of the article is this:

Imagine an actual for profit fire company. Would they really do this? Would they really turn down a higher fee and risk the bad press of being the compnay that sat there while a familty home burned?

My answer to that is, yes - probably, they would. Because a rural area only has the population density to support a single private fire department. It's them or nothing. And letting the house burn down sends a heck of a message to other potential subscribers.

With a defacto monopoly on a service for the common good, a private business will do whatever increases subscribers and profits the most.

Where Time-Warner is the only broadband provider, they will raise prices to the sweet spot, just under where people will actually drop their subscription - and fight tooth and nail against anything that undermines their monopoly.

The same mindless devotion to profit would apply to a privatized fire department. Keep your money-grubbing corporations out of my community services please! This includes things like fastfood companies sponsoring my kids text books.

some things, BlankFist, are just not solved by a free-market. I hope someday you'll moderate your political views to the shades of gray that represent a non-black-and-white reality.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
You asked a while back, and I feel this guy did a decent job of answering it.

http://theemptiness.info/2010/10/burning-down-the-house/

>> ^volumptuous:

Ubuntu?
Yeah, I'll just do that. Because you know, I don't need things like Adobe CS4/5, Logic Audio, Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Max/MSP, Final Cut, Color, Motion, Lightroom and basically every other piece of software I use for my professional and fun purposes.
After scanning around some Ubuntu forums and finding out just what a nightmare it is to run any of my required software, I called a friend @ JPL, and one at Oracle to ask if my summation was correct, and they said "for what you need, Ubuntu makes zero sense". Yep, there you go campion.
Why are we talking about Ubuntu? Oh right, to show that we don't need sweatshops to live our wetern lifestyles. Which for me, (aside from about 1/2 the tech I own) is absolutely true.
I work from home, my GF takes mass transit. We have a massive garden where we get most of our food from. We buy all other food from locally grown, sustainable sources (mostly south central farmers market). We make all of our own cleaning agents, use soap nuts for washing clothes, recycle all water, harvest rainwater, solar dry food, hardly ever use a heater, have no A/C or central air. We use canvas bags to shop with, compost 100% of all food waste, recycle or reuse all plastic/paper/glass etc. Our combined trash for a full month is 1/2 of a normal small plastic bag.
I DO NOT buy Nike products, have never bought anything from WalMart, don't buy fastfood (aside from the ocassional In-n-Out) and we both study the source where all of our merch is made. In this ugly web of global corporate confusion, it's not always easy to find out where every piece of every camera or MIDI controller or PS3 you buy comes from.
It is very easy to "vote with my wallet" although I am not so naive to think it makes a dent on the big picture. But a lot of people would rather just scream "just buy Ubuntu and the world is saved" that's a load of bullshit.


Ubuntu. If you need it, write it. That's how Linux works.

I know I could google, and I will, but what are your tips for making your own cleaning products as I'm quite interested in doing that.

In reply to this comment by volumptuous:
Ubuntu?

Yeah, I'll just do that. Because you know, I don't need things like Adobe CS4/5, Logic Audio, Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Max/MSP, Final Cut, Color, Motion, Lightroom and basically every other piece of software I use for my professional and fun purposes.

After scanning around some Ubuntu forums and finding out just what a nightmare it is to run any of my required software, I called a friend @ JPL, and one at Oracle to ask if my summation was correct, and they said "for what you need, Ubuntu makes zero sense". Yep, there you go campion.

Why are we talking about Ubuntu? Oh right, to show that we don't need sweatshops to live our wetern lifestyles. Which for me, (aside from about 1/2 the tech I own) is absolutely true.

I work from home, my GF takes mass transit. We have a massive garden where we get most of our food from. We buy all other food from locally grown, sustainable sources (mostly south central farmers market). We make all of our own cleaning agents, use soap nuts for washing clothes, recycle all water, harvest rainwater, solar dry food, hardly ever use a heater, have no A/C or central air. We use canvas bags to shop with, compost 100% of all food waste, recycle or reuse all plastic/paper/glass etc. Our combined trash for a full month is 1/2 of a normal small plastic bag.

I DO NOT buy Nike products, have never bought anything from WalMart, don't buy fastfood (aside from the ocassional In-n-Out) and we both study the source where all of our merch is made. In this ugly web of global corporate confusion, it's not always easy to find out where every piece of every camera or MIDI controller or PS3 you buy comes from.

It is very easy to "vote with my wallet" although I am not so naive to think it makes a dent on the big picture. But a lot of people would rather just scream "just buy Ubuntu and the world is saved" that's a load of bullshit.

Ubuntu?

Yeah, I'll just do that. Because you know, I don't need things like Adobe CS4/5, Logic Audio, Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Max/MSP, Final Cut, Color, Motion, Lightroom and basically every other piece of software I use for my professional and fun purposes.

After scanning around some Ubuntu forums and finding out just what a nightmare it is to run any of my required software, I called a friend @ JPL, and one at Oracle to ask if my summation was correct, and they said "for what you need, Ubuntu makes zero sense". Yep, there you go campion.

Why are we talking about Ubuntu? Oh right, to show that we don't need sweatshops to live our wetern lifestyles. Which for me, (aside from about 1/2 the tech I own) is absolutely true.

I work from home, my GF takes mass transit. We have a massive garden where we get most of our food from. We buy all other food from locally grown, sustainable sources (mostly south central farmers market). We make all of our own cleaning agents, use soap nuts for washing clothes, recycle all water, harvest rainwater, solar dry food, hardly ever use a heater, have no A/C or central air. We use canvas bags to shop with, compost 100% of all food waste, recycle or reuse all plastic/paper/glass etc. Our combined trash for a full month is 1/2 of a normal small plastic bag.

I DO NOT buy Nike products, have never bought anything from WalMart, don't buy fastfood (aside from the ocassional In-n-Out) and we both study the source where all of our merch is made. In this ugly web of global corporate confusion, it's not always easy to find out where every piece of every camera or MIDI controller or PS3 you buy comes from.

It is very easy to "vote with my wallet" although I am not so naive to think it makes a dent on the big picture. But a lot of people would rather just scream "just buy Ubuntu and the world is saved" that's a load of bullshit.

Looks awesome. I hate fastfood, so i'll have to replicate it myself with grilled chicken with my spicy rub.....

>> ^gwiz665:
I think the whole tipping culture is bullshit. Pay them a decent wage, and tipping is like it should be - an extra perk.
If you expect me to leave extra money out of the goodness of my heart, you've not seen the black shriveled muscle where my heart should be, and you get nothing. NOTHING. You lose! Good day, sir!


I don't know if you're sarcastic, but not leaving a tip isn't the way to punish the establishment employing the servers. My sister is a Waitress, and she does need the tips, or she can't afford a lot of things. Just because the restaurant is giving them a shit wage, doesn't give you the right to take it out on the person who's counting on that money.

The difference between a waitress and a fastfood worker? One of them serves you and does their damnedest to make your stay pleasant, the other throws a tray at you and couldn't care less about their job.

Recently, someone at the place my sister works at served a group of 3 ladies, she messed one thing up (forgot to bring an extra sauce or some bullshit) and they decided that not only were they not leaving her a tip, but they sent in an email to head office saying how "terrible" their server was, and lied about almost everything.

The end result, she got fired. Not one black mark on her record prior, and now she's out of the job. She also has an 8 year old daughter, and no spouse.
So if you don't feel like tipping, fine, go ahead. I hope karma gets you back for it, but for gods sake, and I can't stress this enough, at least have the respect to leave it at that and not complain unless it's truly necessary. Because a lot of people who do this truly need this job.

CFR Candidate propaganda, and fekkin' mind-numbingly dull......Rhetorica Politica-

"absorbed in its world it's so hard to find us
it shapes our mind the most
maybe the mother of our nation
should remind us that we're sitting too close tooooooo..the Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeeding radiation....

T.V. is the stomping ground
for political candidates
where bears in the woods
are chased by grecian formula'd bald eagles
T.V. is mechanized politic's
remote control over the masses
co-sponsored by enironmentally safe gases
watch for the PBS special
it's the perpetuation of the two-party system
where image takes precedence over wisdom
where sound bite politics are served
to the fastfood culture
where straight teeth in your mouth
are more important than the words
that come out of it
race baiting is the way to get elected
Willie Horton or will he not get elected on...the goddamn tv

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Know what's the really sad state of affairs here, beyond Bill O's bullshit???
The network he works for is owned by a Rupert, the same ilk as a Turner, the same puppets who work for the common good of the herders-those who would that all media be controlled and manipulated for their personal gain-Their effectiveness is unquestionable.....look at this meaningless thread...
Racism is a goddamn bitch for some folks, and dualistic fools that most are, they can't seem to stop playing the either-or game they are trained so effectively for....diversion, all.

How about, "Fuck these morons!" get em all off the air, they insult and stupefy-the FCC should be utterly annihilated, and humans should be instructed on how to use their brains for crissakes...how to derive meaning from the printed or spoken word, beyond the simplistic exercise in believing based on mere words......
"It's the perpetuation of the two party system
where image takes precedence over wisdom
Where sound bite politics are served to
the fastfood culture

Where straight teeth in your mouth
are more important than the words
that come out of it..."
-Franti

If all the rich are so evil, then why did Andrew Carnegie build all those libraries? Bill Gates' Foundation giving his fortune away to worthy causes?

You have completely misunderstood the whole point. The rich are not evil as such, its simple survival.. Most rich people, and not least most big corporations got to where they are today for a reason: they are some badass MF business people, they have worked hard, they they never cave in, they never waste money, and, ultimately they will walk over dead bodies to get where they are. Thats why they are there. if youre the quiet, well-meaning worker-bie around the office, the one that never complains and never ask for a raise etc. you wont get anywhere.

My point is, for a tobacco company, media company, steel armor company, fastfood company or whatever, only one thing counts. More profit than last year. thats their only policy. And when they have most of the market, when they've bought most of their rivals, theres one thing left: Politics. dont like the law? change it. dont like the politicians?, spend millions on getting that other guy elected.

By the way these individuals you mention are people who basically came from nothing, and got ridiculously rich in a relative short time. And they both got to a point I guess where they just thought "well, that was that, I made all the money anyone can make, maybe I should try something different now, like being remembered for something good.."