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I mean - if we can get businesses to supplement education funds in any way that is not a rise in taxes, why not?

And why is an ad-supported education better than better than a tax-supported one? Consumers end up paying for the ads in the form of higher prices anyway, and the ads corrode culture and give incentive for the distortion of the curriculum.

Remember the kid who got suspended for wearing a Pepsi t-shirt during his school's "Coke in Education" day? Is that the kind of country you want to live in?

Suck it up and raise taxes. A couple extra bucks on our property tax bills each year are worth keeping mega-marketer's filthy hands off kids' brains during the school day.

What and you have a valid argument? Give me a fucking break.

You:

You'd think if we staged the whole thing the Russians would have said SOMETHING about it seeing that they listened in to the ENTIRE FREAKING MISSION as did the rest of the world.

Note the lack of any supporting evidence.

Me:

Yeah, and Martians invaded Earth BECAUSE WE HEARD IT ON THE RADIO.

By the weight of the "evidence" I think you described yourself...let's see...

a fucking retard

But wait! Someone else has Actual Scientific Evidence[tm]!

I'm glad to see that you too don't know about the Van Allen Belt.

So perhaps you should get off your anti-conspiracy high-horse rocker and have a pint.

But wait, there's still more!

I don't care to argue this anymore because arguing with a conspiracy theorist is like arguing with a kid or a religious person who uses the fact that god can do anything and everything it wants to shoot down any argument you throw at them.

So now you argue that someone that believes in something that can't be proven is a "conspiracy theorist" yet someone that doesn't believe in something that can't be proven is...also a conspiracy theorist. Please make up your mind.

You'd think if we staged the whole thing the Russians would have said SOMETHING about it seeing that they listened in to the ENTIRE FREAKING MISSION as did the rest of the world.

Yeah, and Martians invaded Earth BECAUSE WE HEARD IT ON THE RADIO.

Give me a break with your name-calling until you have a valid argument.

Memoirs is essentially a satire about a society with too many self-deceptions, and how reality has a way of unraveling even though society refuses to notice or acknowledge any problem. Vacuum is a collection of book reviews -- reviews of books that never existed; in fact some could not possibly exist. These brief descriptions don't do Lem's books credit. Read them yourself; they're devilishly clever.

http://www.transparencynow.com/welles.htm is a good article talking about the broadcast that... upset a few people.

But, by 73, he could be suffering from some problems that limit his ability to understand reality.

What should be done? Damned if I know for sure.

Maybe William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson were on to something?

I'm really surprised to not find Orson Well's War of the Worlds in the top 20 anyways. That has to be one of the best hoaxes ever! War of the Worlds

I believe this already happened in 1938. But it's not a bad idea to stock up on food and water, vote for increases in federal defense, and start developing Star Wars II defense systems. Funny how they just discovered a killer cold right about now, isn't it? That's our only defense!

You mean the man who wrote and produced the radio play that produced panic in 1938 - Orson Wells, not Herbert George Wells, the man who wrote the book in 1898 well before the advent of commercial radio.

Welles made an change in the way the play was produced: under his direction the play was written and performed so it would sound like a news broadcast about an invasion from Mars, a technique that, presumably, was intended to heighten the dramatic effect.

Read the story at War of the Worlds, Orson Welles.

If only Orson Welles were alive to see this ;-)