Marketing On a .EDU Domain

wrttnwrd, an Internet marketer, opens a can of whup-ass on LinkAdage and the Pickering Institute, which have teamed up to rent blog space on a .edu domain for $50 a month. Technically legal maybe but undermining of the trust a .edu engenders.

Comments

Re:All the education you need!

[DaedalusHKX]

This reminds me of the "big business shouldn't buy research" crap. "Only government should have the right to buy schools and influence the thinking of kids or teachers or administrati."

Because we all know that government is NOT business... right? Show me ONE government thug, in even the poorest, crappiest country, that lives as poorly as the average chump voter on the street. Yet, because of some Judeo-Christian system in the west, and simple ruler worship in the east, everyone is buried in this fallacy of the "infallibility of rulers" doctrine. Hell, the hypocrisy is so grand in the west that we call our slave drivers our "representatives".

I tell you what, I occasionally wear a nice suit, but I don't wear Armani or Prada to every meeting I have. I also don't have a limo, my own serf paid body guard detail (secret service, etc) and my own intelligence agency and royal food taster :)

And I'm among those who are fairly "well off".

Do you know what that means? That somehow, the slavemasters got the chumps to think they were "represented".

Yep, yes siree, we are SO represented by a bunch of guys who've never worked on a damn thing in their lives, they never even read the legislation they unanimously or near unanimously pass, but they somehow "represent" me? Hell, they don't even TALK about the issues I'm interested in.

I think the problem is that, where two to three centuries ago, people thought government was EVIL, today they think of it as their personal Jesus Christ. Not sure where the stupidity gene kicked in, but modern man is dumber and far less capable of looking past lies and propaganda. Quite amazing since modern man proclaims himself "educated" and enshrines his degrees and certificates. (I know I used to think all of my wall mounted plaques made me far better than my fellow men, until I met a few guys who changed my mind.) Perhaps we need to rethink our paradigm, instead of having it thought out for us before we're old enough to make our own judgments.

"a can of whup-ass"? Sorry?

[Viol8]

Can someone translate that into english for those of us who don't speak fluent hillbilly?