Environmentally Profitable

lemmingEffect writes: "Came across this NYT article about how many companies are finding unexpected cost-savings for using more environmentally-friendly manufacturing processes and materials. Kinda like getting paid to clean your room--sure would have made me happier as a kid. =)"

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Please help me

[Spootnik]

My name is Billy Evans. I am a very sick little boy. My mother is typing this for me, because I can't. She is crying. The reason she is so sad is because I'm so sick. I was born without a body. It doesn't hurt, except when I try to breathe. The doctors gave me an artificial body. It is a burlap bag filled with leaves. The doctors said that was the best they could do on account of us having no money or insurance.

I would like to have a body transplant, but we need more money. Mommy doesn't work because she said nobody hires crying people. I said,"Don't cry, Mommy," and she hugged my burlap bag. Mommy always gives me hugs, even though she's allergic to burlap and it makes her sneeze and chafes her real bad.

I hope you will help me. You can help me if you forward this email to very one you know. Forward it to people you don't know, too. Dr. Johansen said that for every person you forward this email to, Bill Gates will team up with AOL and send a nickel to NASA. With that funding, NASA will collect prayers from school children all over America and have the astronauts take them up into space so that the angels can hear them better.

Then they will come back to earth and go to the Pope, and he will take up a collection in church and send all the money to the doctors. The doctors could help me get better then.

Maybe one day I will be able to play baseball. Right now I can only be third base. Every time you forward this letter, the astronauts can take more prayers to the angels and my dream will be closer to coming true.

Please help me. Mommy is so sad, and I want a body.

I don't want my leaves to rot before I turn 10. If you don't forward this email, that's okay. Mommy says you're a mean and heartless bastard who doesn't care about a poor little boy with only a head. She says that if you don't stew in the raw pit of your own guilt-ridden stomach, she hopes you die a long, slow, horrible death and then burn forever in hell. What kind of cruel person are you that you can't take five freakin' minutes to forward this to all your friends so that they can feel guilt and shame about ignoring a poor, bodiless nine-year-old boy?

Please help me. I try to be happy, but it's hard. I wish I had a kitty. I wish I could hold a kitty. I wish I could hold a kitty that wouldn't chew on me and try to bury its turds in the leaves of my burlap body. I wish that very much.

Thank You,
Billy "Smiley" Evans

Re:Scratching the Surface

[Anonymous Coward]

This is a good step in the right direction, the maximizing of profit at all other costs is terrible.

If the economy were given the first priority in everything we would already have a perfect world. It's not profitable to wage wars, have people dying from curable diseases or commit crimes.

You socialists and other weenies with your "property is a crime" attitude are the worst criminals in the whole human history.

more liberal tripe

[Anonymous Coward]

the new york times is an avowed left-wing rag.

michael is a known greenie tree-hugger.

is it any surprise he would be trying to advance his agenda with favorable articles? how about posting some counterpoints with some of the enviro hysteria going on wrt global warming, etc?

Re:more liberal tripe

[Anonymous Coward]

Environment is changing because of the human activity.

despite what you read in the liberal media, this isn't face set in stone. I assume when you say environment you mean climate. That is another problem I have with greenies who lump every enviro cause together so if you disagree with any aspect of it you are anti-environment. But anyways, the climate is changing, sure. But the change is extremely minute, a few degrees in the last few centuries. And we have been warming for awhile before that, considering we just came out of an ice age 10000 years ago. The question is whether human activity causes the Earth to heat up faster. Many scientists disagree on this. But you never hear dissenting opinions on it, just the media groupthink ala the new york times. i am favor of clean water, air, and stuff but i have been just turned off by the zealotry and preaching coming from greenies. you need to make decisions for yourself, and not believe everything you read in the media.

internet ecology

[Anonymous Coward]

other than our whoreabull spamming of this site, we're very 'net resource conscious, as we always avoid LieSense filled feechurns, & there's NEVER a cover charge.

although this site is a poor vehicle (unless you're VA larry et al) to get one's poiNT across (crowds, phlamers, us, etc...) ITs free.

we're helping/hoping someone put(s) this site to some good use soon.

Welcome to the brave gnu world of open/honest communications/commerce. fud is dead.

HEY, can we get some cookIEs with that spam?

Re:So much for Bush bullshit

[Anonymous Coward]

I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found alive in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community hope he's dead - especially if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his lack of contribution to popular culture. Truly an American moron.

hard times?

[Anonymous Coward]

the daze of lurking at the whirled through rose colored yacht windows, may be drawing to a close for some of the "new" "economy" high rollers, but most of us have been/will always be, lean on the spendolas.

we're looking forward, with great optimism, to the brave GNU e'conomy. scary huh?

Re:Bollocks

[Anonymous Coward]

Jesus was a liberal Jew.