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Hop-On Hops Back On the PR Bandwagon
I thought CNN's gushing forth of breathless admiration in today's piece:
'Disposable cell phones on the way' sounded familiar.
Yep, it's Hop-On, the same company Slashdotters took to task last March
('Disposable' Cell Phone Actually Repackaged Nokia)
after reading the San Francisco Chronicle's expose
("Sample 'new' cell phone really just modified Nokia [8260]"). Maybe this time the technology is for real. Or maybe I'm just too skeptical for my own good. Caveat lector.
fuck all you playa haters.
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I agree with this post.
Build a man a fire and you warm him for a day. Set a man on fire and you warm him for the rest of his life.
My complaint about Dick Cheney
By now everyone should have heard about Dick Cheney and his loud put-downs. In case you
haven't heard or have even forgotten, allow me to refresh your memory. To begin at the
beginning, I have a hard time trying to reason with people who remain calm when they see
Cheney consign our traditional values to the rubbish heap of careerism. I, not being one of
the many truculent big-labor bosses of this world, thought it couldn't be done, but, once
again, his self-fulfilling prophecies have sunk to a new low. If he got his way, he'd be able to
squeeze every last drop of blood from our overworked, overtaxed bodies. Brrrr! It sends
chills down my spine just thinking about that.
To put this in context, the law is not just a moral stance. It is the consensus of society on our
minimum standards of behavior. Cheney wants to promote the harebrained inveracities of
avaricious maniacs. It gets better: He believes that he acts in the public interest. I guess no
one's ever told him that what he is doing is not an innocent, recreational sort of thing. It is a
criminal activity, it is an immoral activity, it is a socially destructive activity, and it is a
profoundly unruly activity. Although this may come as a surprise to some readers, he has
found a way to avoid compliance with government regulations, circumvent any further
litigation, and raise extortionate demands -- all by trumping up a phony emergency.
Above all, Cheney can't, for the life of him, understand why anyone would prefer so much as
one minute of solitude to the company of a lascivious gang of feckless deadbeats. Does he
do research before he reports things, or does he just guess and hope he's right? The reason I
ask is that as that last sentence suggests, he doesn't want us to know about his plans to make
all of us pay for his boondoggles. Otherwise, we might do something about that.
Let me give you an important hint: When trying to understand what Cheney is up to, look at
what he is doing and what he has done. Don't let yourself be distracted by the patter and the
hand-waving; keep your eye on the shell that has the pea under it. And focus your mind on
the fact that we find among narrow and uneducated minds the belief that doing the
fashionable thing is more important than life or liberty. This belief is due to a basic
confusion, which can be cleared up simply by stating that if it weren't for unimaginative,
gormless conspiracy theorists, Cheney would have no friends. Those of you who thought
that he was finally going to leave us alone are in for a big surprise, because he recently
announced his plans to overthrow the government and eliminate the money system. It is
similarly noteworthy that an armed revolt against Cheney is morally justified. However, I
insist that it is not yet strategically justified. He is hooked on designer victimology but fails
to notice the real victims: the entire next generation.
What kind of loser wants to champion censorship in the name of free speech, intolerance in
the name of tolerance, and oppression in the name of freedom? A loser like Cheney. There
are some narrow-minded, capricious vagrants who are hideous. There are also some who are
pugnacious. Which category does Cheney fall into? If the question overwhelms you, I
suggest you check "both". On balance, all he does is complain, complain, complain. Still, his
latest manifesto, like all the ones that preceded it, is a consummate anthology of disastrously
bad writing teeming with misquotations and inaccuracies, an odyssey of anecdotes that are
occasionally entertaining, but certainly not informative.
So long as the devastating inequities that characterize our society persist, Cheney's peons
will be unable to deny that he has gotten away with so much for so long that he's lost all
sense of caution, all sense of limits. If you think about it, only a man without any sense of
limits could desire to force us to do things or take stands against our will. Cheney claims
that the boogeyman is going to get us if we don't agree to his demands. I feel that the
absurdities within that claim speak for themselves, although I should add that Cheney says
he's going to expose and neutralize his enemies rather than sit at the same table and negotiate
as soon as our backs are turned. Is he out of his homophobic mind? The answer is fairly
obvious when you consider that when he was first found trying to create an unwelcome
climate for those of us who are striving to raise several issues about his incoherent
commentaries that are frequently missing from the drivel that masquerades for discourse on
this topic, I was scared. I was scared not only for my personal safety; I was scared for the
people I love. And now that Cheney is planning to declare that his scribblings enhance
performance standards, productivity, and competitiveness, I'm downright terrified. Be
forewarned: Those of us who are still sane, those of us who still have a firm grip on reality,
those of us who still suspect that I really hope that this sends a strong message to people
across the nation that as long as I live and breathe, I will strive to make plans and carry them
out, have an obligation to do more than just observe what Cheney is doing from a safe
distance. We have an obligation to evaluate the tactics Cheney has used against me. We have
an obligation to raise maladroit autocrats out of their cultural misery and lead them to the
national community as a valuable, united factor. And we have an obligation to enable all
people to achieve their potential as human beings.
Plan to join his camp? Be sure to check your conscience at the door. If you were to tell him
that statistical details released by a third-party agency indicate that antiheroism is the
principal ingredient in the ideological flypaper he uses to attract the most witless cozeners
you'll ever see into his camp, he'd just pull his security blanket a little tighter around himself
and refuse to come out and deal with the real world. It is grossly misleading merely to claim
that Cheney says that genocide, slavery, racism, and the systematic oppression, degradation,
and exploitation of most of the world's people are all thoroughly justified. But then he turns
around and says that divine ichor flows through his veins. You know, you can't have it both
ways, Cheney. Be honest; can you in any way believe his claim that those of us who oppose
him would rather run than fight? I certainly cannot, mainly because when I first became
aware of his covert invasion into our thought processes, all I could think was how his
intimations are characterized by a preachy arrogance unbefitting to someone who knows so
little. That's pretty transparent. What's not so transparent is the answer to the following
question: Is he so lewd as to think that this can go on forever? A clue might be that he is
careless with data, makes all sorts of causal interpretations of things without any real
justification, has a way of combining disparate ideas that don't seem to hang together, seems
to show a sort of pride in his own biases, gets into all sorts of contentious speculation, and
then makes no effort to test out his speculations -- and that's just the short list!
Cheney's ideas may sound comfortable and simple, but it must not be forgotten that if we let
Cheney devalue me as a person, all we'll have to look forward to in the future is a public
realm devoid of culture and a narrow and routinized professional life untouched by the
highest creations of civilization. I can decidedly suggest how he ought to behave. Ultimately,
however, the burden of acting with moral rectitude lies with Cheney himself. I have one
itsy-bitsy problem with his taradiddles. Videlicet, they confuse, disorient, and disunify. And
that's saying nothing about how as our society continues to unravel, more and more people
will be grasping for straws, grasping for something to hold onto, grasping for something that
promises to give them the sense of security and certainty that they so desperately need. These
are the types of people Cheney preys upon.
If he can overawe and befuddle a sufficient number of prominent individuals, then it will
become virtually impossible for anyone to burn away social illness, exploitation, and human
suffering. As for me, I have no bombs, no planes, no artillery, and no terrorist plots. But I do
have weapons and tactics that are far more deadly: pure light and simple truth. Cheney's
primary motivation is self-enrichment at our expense. Let's remember that. It's hard to
fathom just how callous Cheney is. But don't take my word for it; ask any morally repugnant
nitwits you happen to meet.
While these incidents may seem minor, he does not merely develop mind-control technology.
He does so consciously, deliberately, willfully, and methodically. Here's some news for you:
He is a big fan of vigilante justice. Interesting, isn't it? What you may find even more
interesting is that every time he tells his sycophants that he has been robbed of all he does not
possess, their eyes roll into the backs of their heads as they become mindless receptacles of
unsubstantiated information, which they accept without question. As a parting thought,
remember that a common thread runs through most of Dick Cheney's values, a thread so
deluded that it disgusts me nearly to the point of physical illness.
Well, it's a disposable phone/disposable dildo available at fine retailers near you.
I mean "fine" like Brookstones, and The Sharper Image, places that sell stuff you couldn't afford, stuff you wouldn't be able to use. Isn't that right, Robotech Master? Doesn't your Dad suck dick in hell?
damn hackers edict-- you sound so young and cute and male, I can't help but have the same dark desires as the parent poster. I want to put mineral oil all over you and than fuck your quivering, lustrous body.