I just signed up for my brand new free email address - hitler@waveamerica.com! Get yours!
I think that perhaps one of the best ways for the average joe to pursue the utter annihilation of this company (since my ass is too broke to help anyone pursue legal action, although I would like to see the ACLU do this) is to bombard their "tipline" with bogus information. I pledge to do what I can to prevent the rise of fascism in the good 'ole US of A.
Ps. - did you see the red white and blue color scheme on their website? the pics of the flag used as icons?
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this probably won't go over well, but here goes...
I am literally fuming mad over Katz's "AOL Nation" article. The mention of the government disallowing the Time/AOL merger is sign that he does not understand the basic tenets of capitalism. Logic and reason obviously hold no place in his brain, as he relentlessly bashes laissez-faire capitalism advocating a form of open-source socialism. there is nothing wrong with open-source, mind you, I love it - but what Katz advocates equates with doing no work and recieving the benefits of another mans mind. At least with linux you fucking contribute too.
As a former ass. manager at a United Artists theater... The MPAA are basically all-powerful in the movie industry. To show movies, you must "voluntarily" comply with the rating system set forth by them. You don't, you can't show any movies. Once you agree to this, sign it into a contract that no one thinks twice about, they have the power to fine theaters thousands upon thousands of dollars if the regulations are not enforced.
It has since been discovered that this note was a fraud, a fake, a forgery, posted by some jackass on Eric Harris' web site a day after the tragedy, but made to look like it was posted on the 19th.
I am a junior who attends ThunderRidge High School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. My school is located approximately 10 minutes away from Columbine High School geographically, and it is emotionally on our doorstep, as I am sure it is on yours. Fifteen people died on April 20th, and it seems that as fast as the gunfire started the victims have been made secondary in this event.
I am a geek. I do not exist in the upper-most echelon of the social circle at my school, nor do I desire to. I have had my share of being made fun of and bullied, and my share of giving some of that back. For me, high school is a pain that I must endure every day, withstanding mind-numbing lectures and the sin of being forced to endure a waste of my valuable time on this planet. I enjoy playing "violent" video games, I enjoyed watching The Matrix, even left the theatre with a little adrenaline rush. Like many others, of course, I could never fathom killing a human being for teasing and taunting me, no matter how relentless. The fact is simply this: sane people do not kill. The human mind has an unbelievably strong aversion to eliminating any other of its own species. The media is no more guilty, John Katz, of placing the blame with Doom and Quake then you are for placing the blame on the aggressors in the admittedly vicious high school environment.
High school, for many of the intelligent, individualistic, and free-thinking kids is indeed a nightmare. However, as many of the respondents to your article testified, they never killed anyone. Looking back, John Katz and many of you have twenty-twenty hindsight. "Sure high school was awful, but I wasn't crazy, I never killed anyone." Exactly. These kids were insane. No one pushed them over the edge. They were adolescents with mental disabilities and a fascination with Adolf Hitler, one of the most insane beings in human history. They were insane.
Fifteen people died as a result of their madness. The focus cannot be shifted from the deaths of the innocent youth and the brave teacher to the pain that outcasts face in high school every day. I know that the pain of losing a loved one, a son, daughter, or father, is far greater than any grief suffered in any high school by any social misfit anywhere.
Postscript - I normally do not disagree with Jon Katz. I regard him as one of my favorite writers, and I tend to agree with a lot of things he says. The thesis for his "Kids who Kill" article, that violence in the media is not the reason for these massacres is correct. I can't help but agree that "for some of the best, brightest and most interesting kids, high school is a nightmare of exclusion, cruelty, warped values and anger." The point where our paths diverge on this issue is Katz' relentless pursual of blaming the tragedy on seemingly bellegerint social conditions at high school.
Mr. Katz, although you dwell on Bill Gates many shortcomings, you forget that he is the richest man on the planet. I could not quite discern if this piece was written out of jealousy or hatred for climbing to the top of the mountain without morals. which? I am not exactly his biggest fan, but anyone who can amass such great wealth and put it to use, if only for himself (which he hasn't done, B.G. is already the most contributing philanthropist in history) gets my vote of confidence.
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I just signed up for my brand new free email address - hitler@waveamerica.com! Get yours!
I think that perhaps one of the best ways for the average joe to pursue the utter annihilation of this company (since my ass is too broke to help anyone pursue legal action, although I would like to see the ACLU do this) is to bombard their "tipline" with bogus information. I pledge to do what I can to prevent the rise of fascism in the good 'ole US of A.
Ps. - did you see the red white and blue color scheme on their website? the pics of the flag used as icons?
this probably won't go over well, but here goes...
I am literally fuming mad over Katz's "AOL Nation" article. The mention of the government disallowing the Time/AOL merger is sign that he does not understand the basic tenets of capitalism. Logic and reason obviously hold no place in his brain, as he relentlessly bashes laissez-faire capitalism advocating a form of open-source socialism. there is nothing wrong with open-source, mind you, I love it - but what Katz advocates equates with doing no work and recieving the benefits of another mans mind. At least with linux you fucking contribute too.
As a former ass. manager at a United Artists theater... The MPAA are basically all-powerful in the movie industry. To show movies, you must "voluntarily" comply with the rating system set forth by them. You don't, you can't show any movies. Once you agree to this, sign it into a contract that no one thinks twice about, they have the power to fine theaters thousands upon thousands of dollars if the regulations are not enforced.
The newest feedmag essays all have to do with the brain - one on memory resides at http://www.feedmag.com/brain/shenk.html
It has since been discovered that this note was a fraud, a fake, a forgery, posted by some jackass on Eric Harris' web site a day after the tragedy, but made to look like it was posted on the 19th.
I am a junior who attends ThunderRidge High School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. My school is located approximately 10 minutes away from Columbine High School geographically, and it is emotionally on our doorstep, as I am sure it is on yours. Fifteen people died on April 20th, and it seems that as fast as the gunfire started the victims have been made secondary in this event.
I am a geek. I do not exist in the upper-most echelon of the social circle at my school, nor do I desire to. I have had my share of being made fun of and bullied, and my share of giving some of that back. For me, high school is a pain that I must endure every day, withstanding mind-numbing lectures and the sin of being forced to endure a waste of my valuable time on this planet. I enjoy playing "violent" video games, I enjoyed watching The Matrix, even left the theatre with a little adrenaline rush. Like many others, of course, I could never fathom killing a human being for teasing and taunting me, no matter how relentless. The fact is simply this: sane people do not kill. The human mind has an unbelievably strong aversion to eliminating any other of its own species. The media is no more guilty, John Katz, of placing the blame with Doom and Quake then you are for placing the blame on the aggressors in the admittedly vicious high school environment.
High school, for many of the intelligent, individualistic, and free-thinking kids is indeed a nightmare. However, as many of the respondents to your article testified, they never killed anyone. Looking back, John Katz and many of you have twenty-twenty hindsight. "Sure high school was awful, but I wasn't crazy, I never killed anyone." Exactly. These kids were insane. No one pushed them over the edge. They were adolescents with mental disabilities and a fascination with Adolf Hitler, one of the most insane beings in human history. They were insane.
Fifteen people died as a result of their madness. The focus cannot be shifted from the deaths of the innocent youth and the brave teacher to the pain that outcasts face in high school every day. I know that the pain of losing a loved one, a son, daughter, or father, is far greater than any grief suffered in any high school by any social misfit anywhere.
Postscript - I normally do not disagree with Jon Katz. I regard him as one of my favorite writers, and I tend to agree with a lot of things he says. The thesis for his "Kids who Kill" article, that violence in the media is not the reason for these massacres is correct. I can't help but agree that "for some of the best, brightest and most interesting kids, high school is a nightmare of exclusion, cruelty, warped values and anger." The point where our paths diverge on this issue is Katz' relentless pursual of blaming the tragedy on seemingly bellegerint social conditions at high school.
Mr. Katz, although you dwell on Bill Gates many shortcomings, you forget that he is the richest man on the planet. I could not quite discern if this piece was written out of jealousy or hatred for climbing to the top of the mountain without morals. which? I am not exactly his biggest fan, but anyone who can amass such great wealth and put it to use, if only for himself (which he hasn't done, B.G. is already the most contributing philanthropist in history) gets my vote of confidence.