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Extrusion. Yes. Exactly correct.

http://theyesmen.org/index.php/portfolio_page/let-them-eat-hamburger/

The relevant frames begin right around 3:58.

Survivaball
http://theyesmen.org/hijinks/s...

Did somebody not get the joke?

See The Yes Men's Human Candle proposal to Exxon:
http://theyesmen.org/hijinks/vivoleum

You're thinking of The Yes Men.

Agreed. I also thought this had The Yes Men written all over it. :^)

Since the sites in question seem fine, I posted a comment on their site http://theyesmen.org/canadareacts?nocache=1#comment-7088, which is now queued for moderator approval... how lame is that.

what's offensive is very subjective. and as history has shown, people can get offended by just about anything. the SimCopter easter egg sounds like it was meant to be more humorous than offensive. but i guess some people are offended by the sight of homosexuals, or perhaps just think that video games should not acknowledge the existence of homosexuality (after all, it might turn our children gay!).

for those interested, the guy responsible for the SimCopter easter egg is now a member of the culture jamming activist group, the yes men. but be warned, if you're offended by the sight of pixelated men in kissing in a video game, you might want not want to click on that link.

Fuels from bodily waste. Will you choose peesel or shitroleum?

No, no, no. We already have a use for that.

Not going to matter. 5 years from now, the staff and readers of slashdot would have already been used for fuel: http://www.theyesmen.org/en/hijinks/vivoleum

-monkeybollocks

"But then the article goes on (paragraph 3):
Technology allowing constant monitoring of workers was previously limited to pilots, firefighters and Nasa astronauts. This is believed to be the first time a company has proposed developing such software for mainstream workplaces."

Oo! Oo! Oo! No it isn't! Doesn't anyone remember the Yes Men? They did a wearable version of this. Check it out:

http://www.theyesmen.org/hijinks/tampere/

The movie will amaze and impress you.

Back in 2001, the Yes Men envisioned a wearable suit that does exactly the same thing. It was only a matter of time until a company actually proposed the idea.

Back in 2001, the Yes Men envisioned a wearable suit that does exactly the same thing. It was only a matter of time until a company actually proposed the idea.

I wonder how these technologies would work for us working at home?

Is my bed and living room sofa going to have analyzers? How would the system know when a person is working or doing some other activity? Would it record snoring?

Does the next generation have also active components? (If you remember the WTO lecturer hoax in Finland, "Textiles of the Future") [The Yes Men, http://www.theyesmen.org/ ]

It could be people. You have to feed the algae somehow. This is another benefit of global warming floods that the Vivoleum people have already thought of.

Not script kiddies! Vivoleum was a prank by the Yes Men.

http://www.theyesmen.org/
http://www.theyesmen.org/agribusiness/vivoleum/eve nt/

Too funny!

Not script kiddies! Vivoleum was a prank by the Yes Men.

http://www.theyesmen.org/
http://www.theyesmen.org/agribusiness/vivoleum/eve nt/

Too funny!

You're late with the idea ... A free market based solution to democracy.

Citizen: "This supports Bush, right?"
Us: "Well, yes, this is about his administration's approach to global warming--freezing Europe, sinking Japan..."
Citizen: "Where do I sign?"

I wouldn't even be so sure of that. Nowadays whenever I see any corporation saying they take responsibility for something, I immediately suspect another yesmen prank.

Now that may not be very likely, but if I were the yesmen, I'd be perched and waiting for another ID theft scandal, because nothing would be more meta than stealing the ID of a PR person handling an ID theft incident.

This is news? The Yes Men have been doing this for a long time. http://www.theyesmen.org/ Pure genius. :)

As soon as I heard that it was a hoax, I thought of The Yes Men.

As soon as I heard that it was a hoax, I thought of The Yes Men. I recently got a chance to see the documentary about them. After taking on George W Bush and the WTO (including one of them being interviewed on CNBC Europe as a WTO spokesperson), this seemed like a logical target and a logical method of attack. So I checked out their site. There wasn't anything in the news section, but it turns out they've had a previous run-in with Dow Chemical. Yeah, I think it's pretty likely that The Yes Men are the ones behind the hoax.

As soon as I heard that it was a hoax, I thought of The Yes Men. I recently got a chance to see the documentary about them. After taking on George W Bush and the WTO (including one of them being interviewed on CNBC Europe as a WTO spokesperson), this seemed like a logical target and a logical method of attack. So I checked out their site. There wasn't anything in the news section, but it turns out they've had a previous run-in with Dow Chemical. Yeah, I think it's pretty likely that The Yes Men are the ones behind the hoax.

This article says the fake spokesperson claims to be a member of the Yes Men group, who has been doing this sort of thing for a while. But there is not confirmation of the Bhopal hoax on their site. (The hoaxster could be lying!)

Here's the salient bit from the article:

"Finisterra, whose identity could not be confirmed, later told BBC's Radio 4 he was part of the group Yes Men, which hoaxes businesses and governments and which has gone after Dow before over Bhopal."

All economic theory, and all empirical data, show that when two regions trade, both benefit. (If the opposite were true, why not put up tariffs between the states and counties in the US?).

Then why do we have a $498 Billion trade deficit, if we're benefiting so much from free trade? Also, I happen to be FOR tariffs between states and counties- distributism provides the largest number of jobs, and thus the largest good, for the most people, while reducing nasty fossil fuel consumption for shipping.

Of course, the benefit is true for the country in the aggregate, not necessarily for specific industries. It is therefore understandable that special interests such as American IT workers are negative to trade.

Where's the positive? It ain't in trade for America- you, personally, owe $17172.413793103448275862068965517 for last year's trade with the rest of the world (as do all 290 million America citizens who have been buying on credit without producing anything the rest of the world wants to buy).

However, it is completely hypocritcial to claim that tariffs and other regulations are in the interests of those in the developing world!! And of course, during trade negotiations we never hear the Indians and Chinese beg us to impose more tariffs or to get more regulations. This is a cause completely driven by the leftist movement in the west.

Why should they want more tarrifs? Isn't $3 million (the average cost of a guest worker visa in India) enough?
Improved wages and environment legislation will follow the growth in the developing world just as it has here. For them to legislate the same standards as ours when their economies only produce 1/20th as much is an invitation for economic disaster, just on par with printing more money.

Forgetting what Union Carbide did to India, are we? Click here and see the face of the free market

What O'Rourke and Brix describe is not just "disguising" their association with Microsoft, but is in reality an outright unethical fraud.

Kinda like these characters?

Or do you perhaps approve of the deception in this case (maybe because it's so richly deserved)?